Journal of advanced nursing
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of an educational pre-operative DVD on parents' and children's outcomes after a same-day surgery: a randomized controlled trial.
To examine the effect of a pre-operative DVD on parents' knowledge, participation and anxiety and on children's distress, pain, analgesic requirements and length of recovery after same-day surgery. ⋯ A pre-operative DVD can increase parents' participation in the recovery room and decrease children's postoperative pain.