A randomized controlled trial on virtual reality distraction during venous cannulation in young children.

Background And Objectives: Pain management in children is often inadequate, and the single most common painful procedure in children who are hospitalized is needle procedures. Virtual reality (VR) has been shown to decrease anxiety and pain in children undergoing painful procedures primarily in children from the age of 7 years. Our aim for this study is to investigate patient satisfaction and pain reduction by using a three-dimensional VR interactive game as a distraction in 4-7 years old children during venous cannulation.

The family house-A safe haven: A qualitative study of families' experiences staying in a hospital family house during their children's hospitalisation.

Aims: To gain knowledge about families' experiences while staying in a hospital family house during their child's hospitalisation.

Background: When a child is hospitalised with a chronic, serious or life-threatening disease, the entire family is stressed as normal everyday life is disrupted. In Denmark, accompanying the ill child to the paediatric wards is often possible only for one of the parents.