[Methods of approach used by physicials untrained in behaviour therapy to reduce anxiety in children undergoing routine examination (author's transl)].
Samples of pediatricians (N = 50), general practitioners (N = 50) and doctors of a children's hospital (N = 30) were asked to rate the intensity of children's anxiety for 15 items of routine medical performances. In addition the first two groups were asked about the technique used to reduce children's anxiety or to hold it on a low level. The questionnaires were analysed under the following aspects: 1) Are there systematic differences between the three groups concerning the estimation of infantile fear-intensity?--2) Is it possible to express the described behaviour doctors regard as effective for anxiety-reduction in terms of learning theory or behaviour-therapy respectively?--3) Is there a statistical interaction between the estimation of fear-intensity and ways of approaching?--Concerning the estimation of children's fear-intensity the three groups turned out to be highly concordant. Nearly 60% of pediatricians and general practitioners at least once during a session use approaching-techniques in the sense of learning theory. There is no interaction between the two variables "fear-intensity-estimation" and "mode of approach".
D001007:Anxiety / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D005194:Family Practice; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Lerntheoretisch erklärbare Umgangstechniken verhaltenstherapeutisch unausgebildeter Arzte zur Angstprophylaxe bei kinderärztlichen Massnahmen