Preoperative Psychological Preparation of Children

Surgery and anaesthesia are significant sources of anxiety for children. In the preoperative period, reducing anxiety helps in preventing the negative consequences that may occur after surgery. The predetermined high-risk children in terms of the development of anxiety play an important role in redu...

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Published inTurkish Journal of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 344 - 346
Main Authors Gulec, Ersel, Ozcengiz, Dilek
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Turkey Aves Yayincilik Ltd. STI 01.10.2015
Turkish Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Society
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Review
Anaesthesia
preoperative
anxiety
coping
child
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Summary:Surgery and anaesthesia are significant sources of anxiety for children. In the preoperative period, reducing anxiety helps in preventing the negative consequences that may occur after surgery. The predetermined high-risk children in terms of the development of anxiety play an important role in reducing the negative consequences. Recently featured approaches are modelling and coping techniques, although many techniques are used in the preoperative psychological preparation. The use of computer programs in this area may facilitate important achievements, and it needs to support new studies to be performed.
ISSN:2149-0937
2667-677X
2149-276X
2667-6370
DOI:10.5152/tjar.2015.16768