Nurses' reassurances may not help kids' stress: study

Children who were not anxious at the start of the visit and who heard reassurances about 15 seconds into the event had a 2 in 3 chance of getting more stressed by reassurances. "For children who are very anxious, the reassurance can have even more negative effects," said Yuefang Zhou. Zhou and her colleague, Gerry Michael Humphris, both of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, conducted the study. The current study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine confirms the same relationship found in past research on more serious procedures, said Keith Allen.



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