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- The study evaluated a computer-based training program called "Bear Essentials" designed to help parents better manage their preschoolers' anxiety during immunizations.
- In a trial with 90 parent-child pairs, those who underwent the Bear Essentials training showed improved understanding and modified their behaviors, leading to more effective distraction techniques and deep breathing practices.
- Despite these improvements in parent and child behaviors, the program did not significantly reduce the children's overall distress or pain during procedures, indicating a need for further adjustments to enhance its effectiveness.
Article Abstract
Objective: To examine a computerized parent training program, "Bear Essentials," to improve parents' knowledge and coaching to help relieve preschoolers' immunization distress.
Method: In a randomized controlled trial, 90 parent-child dyads received Bear Essentials parent training plus distraction, distraction only, or control. Outcomes were parent knowledge, parent and child behavior, and child pain.
Results: Bear Essentials resulted in improved knowledge of the effects of parents' reassurance, provision of information, and apologizing on children's procedural distress. Trained parents also engaged in less reassurance and more distraction and encouragement of deep breathing. Children in Bear Essentials engaged in more distraction and deep breathing than children in other groups. There were no effects on measures of child distress or pain.
Conclusions: Results suggest that the interactive computer training program impacted parent knowledge, parent behavior, and child behavior as hypothesized, but modifications will be necessary to have more robust outcomes on child procedural distress.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502392 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsu162 | DOI Listing |
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