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Clowns can ease anxiety in child patients


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Clowns may improve the physical and emotional wellbeing of children and adolescents in hospital, a study has found.

Brazilian and Canadian researchers (full list of study authors below) looked at the findings of 24 clinical trials involving 1,612 children that analysed reactions including anxiety, pain, emotional wellbeing and stress. The earliest trial was carried out in 2005 and the latest in February 2020.

The review, published this month in the BMJ, found that children and adolescents, either with acute or chronic conditions, had ‘significantly less anxiety’ and ‘improved psychological adjustment’ in the presence of hospital clowns for multiple procedures, including before a painful operation and during the induction of anesthesia.

Full story at Nursing in Practice: Link

Effectiveness of hospital clowns for symptom management in paediatrics: systematic review of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials.

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Surprising. There's an awful lot of people, children and adults alike, that find clowns pretty spooky. I know a few.

 

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8 minutes ago, Stiff said:

Surprising. There's an awful lot of people, children and adults alike, that find clowns pretty spooky. I know a few.

Oh, why?

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