The purpose of this clinical update is to provide an overview of the fear of needles and
needle phobia in children and adolescents including characteristics and diagnosis …

Pediatric venous access causes unnecessary anxiety and pain in children and, in turn, can
have detrimental consequences. Behavioral approaches to pediatric venous access distress …

The principle of informed consent obligates physicians to explain possible side effects when
prescribing medications. This disclosure may itself induce adverse effects through …

METHODS Healthy parturients at term requesting labor epidural analgesia or nonlaboring
parturients presenting for elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia were included …

Abstract Information provision is an important aspect of preparing children for medical
procedures. Parents and health professionals are often unsure of what to tell a child about a …

OBJECTIVE: The placebo effect, or response, has evolved from being thought of as a
nuisance in clinical and pharmacological research to a biological phenomenon worthy of …

The transformation of health care from a seller's market to a consumer's market has pushed
the element of patient satisfaction into the forefront of various tools that evaluate medical …

Background and objective Communication between patients and health care practitioners is
expected to benefit health outcomes. The objective of this review was to assess the effects of …

Preoperative anxiety has an incidence of 11–80% in patients undergoing surgical or
interventional procedures. Understanding the role of preoperative anxiety on intraoperative …

The application of operant learning theory on chronic pain by Fordyce has had a huge
impact on chronic pain research and management. The operant model focuses on pain …