Changing healthcare providers' behavior during pediatric inductions with an empirically based intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Each year more than 4 million children experience significant levels of preoperative anxiety, which has been linked to poor recovery outcomes. Healthcare providers (HCPs) and parents represent key resources for children to help them manage their preoperative anxiety. The current study reports on the development and preliminary feasibility testing of a new intervention designed to change HCP and parent perioperative behaviors that have been reported previously to be associated with children's coping and stress behaviors before surgery.

Methods

An empirically derived intervention, Provider-Tailored Intervention for Perioperative Stress, was developed to train HCPs to increase behaviors that promote children's coping and decrease behaviors that may exacerbate childre

SUBMITTER: Martin SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3124404 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature