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...
| Published in: | Nursing Research Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 44 - 50 |
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| Format: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
1999 Jan-Feb
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