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It is common for parents and children to experience anxiety when children undergo surgery. Perioperative anxiety is known to influence a child’s ability to cope with surgery and has negative impacts on their postoperative recovery. While there have been numerous studies that exemplify that parent’s anxiety is positively associated/correlated with their …show more content…
Therefore the authors of the current experiment aimed to examine the effects of a therapeutic play intervention for children on their parents; perioperative anxiety and the relationship between parent’s and their children’s anxiety. A secondary aim of the study was to investigate the parents’ perceptions of the provided intervention. The literature review of this experiment