Fernandes Sara, Arriaga Patrícia, Esteves Francisco
a Center for Research and Social Intervention (CIS-IUL) , University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL).
b Department of Psychology , Mid Sweden University.
Health Commun. 2015;30(12):1190-200. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2014.896446. Epub 2014 Aug 21.
Surgery is a highly stressful event for children and caregivers. Extensive effort has been made to improve preoperative care in order to alleviate worry about the surgical procedure itself. This study tested the impact of an educational multimedia intervention on the cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses of children undergoing surgery, as well as on parental state anxiety. Children (n = 90) were assigned to three different groups: an educational multimedia intervention (experimental group), an entertainment video game intervention (comparison group), and a control group (no intervention). Children who received the educational multimedia intervention reported lower level of worries about hospitalization, medical procedures, illness, and negative consequences than those in the control and in the comparison groups. Parental state anxiety was also lower in the both the educational and the entertainment video game interventions compared to the control group. These findings suggest that providing information to children regarding medical procedures and hospital rules and routines is important to reduce their preoperative worries, and also relevant for parental anxiety.
手术对儿童及其照料者来说是一件压力极大的事情。人们已经付出了巨大努力来改善术前护理，以减轻对手术本身的担忧。本研究测试了一种教育性多媒体干预对接受手术儿童的认知、情绪和生理反应以及对父母状态焦虑的影响。90名儿童被分为三组：教育性多媒体干预组（实验组）、娱乐视频游戏干预组（对照组）和无干预的对照组。与对照组和比较组相比，接受教育性多媒体干预的儿童对住院、医疗程序、疾病和负面后果的担忧程度较低。与对照组相比，教育性和娱乐视频游戏干预组的父母状态焦虑也较低。这些发现表明，向儿童提供有关医疗程序以及医院规章制度的信息对于减少他们术前的担忧很重要，而且对父母的焦虑也有影响。
