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Clown intervention to reduce preoperative anxiety in children and parents: a randomized controlled trial

Alberto Dionigi1, Diego Sangiorgi, Roberto Flangini

  • 1University of Macerata, Italy.

Journal of Health Psychology
|January 31, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
children’s preoperative anxietyclown interventioncomplementary and alternative medicinehumorparental anxiety

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