Brief report. Effects of distraction on children's pain and distress during medical procedures: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: It is difficult to determine the usefulness of distraction to decrease children's distress behavior and pain during medical procedures because many studies use very small samples and report inconsistent findings. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the mean effect sizes across studies for the eff...

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Published in:Nursing Research Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 44 - 50
Main Authors: Kleiber C, Harper DC
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 1999 Jan-Feb
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