title: Changing healthcare providers' behavior during pediatric inductions with an empirically based intervention.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Each year more than 4 million children experience significant levels of preoperative anxiety, which has been linked to poor recovery outcomes. Healthcare providers (HCPs) and parents represent key resources for children to help them manage their preoperative anxiety. The current study reports on the development and preliminary feasibility testing of a new intervention designed to change HCP and parent perioperative behaviors that have been reported previously to be associated with children's coping and stress behaviors before surgery.
  
  
  METHODS
  An empirically derived intervention, Provider-Tailored Intervention for Perioperative Stress, was developed to train HCPs to increase behaviors that promote children's coping and decrease behaviors that may exacerbate children's distress. Rates of HCP behaviors were coded and compared between preintervention and postintervention. In addition, rates of parents' behaviors were compared between those that interacted with HCPs before training to those interacting with HCPs after the intervention.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Effect sizes indicated that HCPs who underwent training demonstrated increases in rates of desired behaviors (range: 0.22-1.49) and decreases in rates of undesired behaviors (range: 0.15-2.15). In addition, parents, who were indirectly trained, also demonstrated changes to their rates of desired (range: 0.30-0.60) and undesired behaviors (range: 0.16-0.61).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intervention successfully modified HCP and parent behaviors. It represents a potentially new clinical way to decrease anxiety in children. A multisite randomized control trial funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development will examine the efficacy of this intervention in reducing children's preoperative anxiety and improving children's postoperative recovery.
authors: Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
authors: Sarah R
authors: SR
authors: Martin
authors: Jill Maclaren
authors: JM
authors: Chorney
authors: Edwin T
authors: ET
authors: Tan
authors: Michelle A
authors: MA
authors: Fortier
authors: Ronald L
authors: RL
authors: Blount
authors: Samuel H
authors: SH
authors: Wald
authors: Nina L
authors: NL
authors: Shapiro
authors: Suzanne L
authors: SL
authors: Strom
authors: Swati
authors: S
authors: Patel
authors: Zeev N
authors: ZN
authors: Kain
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