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Review: distraction, hypnosis, and combined cognitive-behavioural interventions reduce needle related pain and distress in children and adolescents

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.10.3.75

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    Uman LS, Chambers CT, McGrath PJ, et al. Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;(4):CD005179.OpenUrlPubMed

    Q In children and adolescents, do cognitive-behavioural psychological interventions reduce pain and distress associated with needle related procedures?

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    Medline, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Dissertation Abstracts International (all up to 2005); Cochrane Library (Issue 4, 2005); bibliographies of relevant studies; and researchers.

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    randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that had ⩾5 participants per group and compared cognitive and behavioural psychological interventions with a control or comparison condition in children or adolescents 2–19 years of age who were healthy (or had chronic or transitory illnesses) and were receiving needle related medical …

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: MsL Uman, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. luman{at}dal.ca

    • Sources of funding: National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation, and Pain in Child Health.