Anxiety - Prevention & control
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Low-dose oral midazolam reduces fear and distress during needle procedures in children with cancer.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with cancer often mention needle procedures as the most frightening, distressing, and sometimes painful aspect of the disease and treatment. The aim was to investigate whether children experience less fear, distress, and/or pain ... Read more...

Pre-operative forced-air warming as a method of anxiolysis.

29 Sep 2009 SUMMARY: We tested the hypothesis that pre-operative forced-air warming is as effective for anxiolysis as intravenous midazolam, using a blinded, placebo controlled factorial design. One hundred and twenty patients were randomly assigned to cotton ... Read more...

Children's desire for perioperative information.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The purpose of this investigation was to identify what perioperative information children want to receive from the medical staff. METHODS: As a first step, we developed an instrument based on a qualitative study conducted with children ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anxiety - Prevention & control'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Low-dose oral midazolam reduces fear and distress during needle procedures in children with cancer. 13 Dec 2009
• Pre-operative forced-air warming as a method of anxiolysis. 29 Sep 2009
• Children's desire for perioperative information. 29 Sep 2009
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials of DHEA treatment effects on quality of life in women with adrenal insufficiency. 20 Sep 2009
• Structured information during the ICU stay to reduce anxiety: study protocol of a multicenter randomized controlled trial. 12 Sep 2009
• [Painful diabetic polyneuropathy: preventing the vicious circle of pain, anxiety and sleep disorders] 8 Sep 2009
• Women's views regarding hypnosis for the control of surgical pain in the context of a randomized clinical trial. 30 Aug 2009
• The place of premedication in pediatric practice. 30 Aug 2009
• Evaluation of psychological outcomes following the intervention 'teaching group': study on predialysis patients. 30 Aug 2009
• "Everyone should buttonhole": a novel technique for a regional Australian renal service. 30 Aug 2009
• Randomized trial of light versus deep sedation on mental health after critical illness. 30 Aug 2009
• Extending knowledge of terror management theory to improve palliative nursing care. 30 Jul 2009
• Identifying and assessing anxiety in pre-operative patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Possible involvement of GABAergic mechanism in protective effect of melatonin against sleep deprivation-induced behaviour modification and oxidative damage in mice. 30 Jul 2009
• Efficacy of progressive muscle relaxation training in reducing anxiety in patients with acute schizophrenia. 30 Jul 2009
• Soothing music can increase oxytocin levels during bed rest after open-heart surgery: a randomised control trial. 30 Jul 2009
• An educational intervention to improve women's ability to cope with childbirth. 30 Jul 2009
• Communication and human patient simulation in psychiatric nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• Acupuncture and IVF trial. 30 Jul 2009
• Multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of amitriptyline in children with functional gastrointestinal disorders. 29 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Anxiety'

Definition: Feeling or emotion of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster but not disabling as with ANXIETY DISORDERS.

Descriptor UI: D001007

Alternative terms: Anxiety; Anxieties; Nervousness;

Related Mesh Headings: Anxiety Disorders; Anti-Anxiety Agents;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F01.470.132;

Technical Notes: human & animal; differentiate from ANXIETY DISORDERS, a psychiatric diagnosis