Parental factors predicting unnecessary ambulance use for their child with acute illness: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: To examine characteristics of parents of children with acute, albeit mild, illnesses who used ambulance transport unnecessarily.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Methods: From 2016 - 2017, we recruited parents who visited the emergency room of a Japanese paediatric hospital and whose children were discharged without hospitalization.

Predictors of maternal state anxiety on arrival at a Japanese hospital outpatient clinic: a cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the factors that predict maternal state anxiety when mothers and their sick children visit the outpatient unit of a paediatric hospital.

Background: While previous studies have focused on predictors of anxiety in mothers with ill children, the existing literature is limited in study design, research timing, respondent characteristics, sample size and data analysis.

Design: A cross-sectional design with self-administered questionnaires.

Effectiveness of aromatherapy in decreasing maternal anxiety for a sick child undergoing infusion in a paediatric clinic.

Objectives: We examined whether aromatherapy involving inhalation of yuzu (Citrus ichangensis×Citrus reticulata) oil was effective in decreasing mothers' anxiety for her sick child receiving an infusion at a paediatric clinic.

Design: Controlled clinical trial.

Setting: Mothers of sick children who arrived at the hospital were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire.