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Shimmaa Moustafa – Child Care in Practice, 2024
Background: Relief of pain and suffering is an important responsibility of nurses caring for children, and intravenous cannula insertions is the most common sources of pain in hospitalized children. Distraction is recommended to help in minimizing the discomfort of painful procedures. The aim of the study is to examine the effects of pressing a…
Descriptors: Attention, Pain, Emotional Response, Child Behavior
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Stinley, Nora E.; Norris, Deborah O.; Hinds, Pamela S. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2015
This randomized controlled clinical trial explored the feasibility of implementing a fast-acting mandala intervention to reduce physical pain and psychological anxiety experienced during needle sticks. Forty pediatric patients participated in this two-group study: 20 participants created a mandala on an iPad (Treatment Group) and 20 participants…
Descriptors: Pain, Patients, Pediatrics, Art Activities
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King, Sara; Boutilier, Jessica A.; MacLaren Chorney, Jill – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2018
Although chronic pain is relatively common in childhood, many teachers feel ill-prepared to work with students with chronic and recurrent pain in the classroom and would like to learn more about supporting these students. A web-based eHealth intervention designed to provide information about pain and pain management in the classroom was developed…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Pain, Usability, Health Education
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Kushak, Rafail I.; Lauwers, Gregory Y.; Winter, Harland S.; Buie, Timothy M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
Intestinal disaccharidase activities were measured in 199 individuals with autism to determine the frequency of enzyme deficiency. All patients had duodenal biopsies that were evaluated morphologically and assayed for lactase, sucrase, and maltase activity. Frequency of lactase deficiency was 58% in autistic children less than or equal to 5 years…
Descriptors: Autism, Patients, Physical Health, Age Differences
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Cleary, Michael J. – Health Educator, 2011
Since the early 1970s, neuroscientists recognized that it was possible for patients to re-regulate brain wave activity. Much of this early work focused on helping persons with epilepsy control their seizures and was later extended toward helping children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with concentration. This brainwave…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Pain
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Lebel, A.; Becerra, L.; Wallin, D.; Moulton, E. A.; Morris, S.; Pendse, G.; Jasciewicz, J.; Stein, M.; Aiello-Lammens, M.; Grant, E.; Berde, C.; Borsook, D. – Brain, 2008
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in paediatric patients is clinically distinct from the adult condition in which there is often complete resolution of its signs and symptoms within several months to a few years. The ability to compare the symptomatic and asymptomatic condition in the same individuals makes this population interesting for the…
Descriptors: Pain, Children, Patients, Chronic Illness
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Jason, Leonard; Porter, Nicole; Shelleby, Elizabeth; Till, Lindsay; Bell, David S.; Lapp, Charles W.; Rowe, Kathy; De Meirleir, Kenny – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2009
The new diagnostic criteria for pediatric ME/CFS are structurally based on the Canadian Clinical Adult case definition, and have more required specific symptoms than the (Fukuda et al. Ann Intern Med 121:953-959, 1994) adult case definition. Physicians specializing in pediatric ME/CFS referred thirty-three pediatric patients with ME/CFS and 21…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Physicians, Evaluation Criteria, Diagnostic Tests
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Kirk, Charlotte; Nagiub, George; Abu-Arafeh, Ishaq – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
This was a prospective, observational study of children aged 3 to 15 years admitted to hospital with head injury (HI). Demographic data and information on the nature of the HI, and history of premorbid headache were collected. A structured telephone questionnaire was used to interview parents and children 2 months after injury and at 4-monthly…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Longitudinal Studies, Head Injuries, Patients
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Emslie, Graham J.; Findling, Robert L.; Yeung, Paul P.; Kunz, Nadia R.; Li, Yunfeng – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: The safety, efficacy, and tolerability of venlafaxine extended release (ER) in subjects ages 7 to 17 years with major depressive disorder were evaluated in two multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials conducted between October 1997 and August 2001. Method: Participants received venlafaxine ER (flexible dose,…
Descriptors: Safety, Patients, Adolescents, Suicide
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Randolph, Mary E.; Reddy, Diane M. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2006
Sexual abuse, particularly childhood sexual abuse, has been linked to chronic pelvic pain and to sexual dysfunction, though the sexual functioning of survivors of sexual abuse has not been studied in a chronic pain population. Sixty-three women with chronic pelvic pain completed measures of sexual function, sexual abuse, and pain. Using an index…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Pain, Children, Patients
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Mulvaney, Shelagh; Lambert, E. Warren; Garber, Judy; Walker, Lynn S. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: This prospective study characterizes trajectories of symptoms and impairment in pediatric patients with abdominal pain not associated with identifiable organic disease. Method: The Children's Somatization Inventory and the Functional Disability Inventory were administered four times over 5 years to 132 patients (6-18 years old) seen in…
Descriptors: Pain, Patients, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)