TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of a computer network on pediatric pain and anxiety
T2 - A randomized controlled clinical trial
AU - Holden, Gary
AU - Bearison, David J.
AU - Rode, Diane C.
AU - Fishman Kapiloff, Merri
AU - Rosenberg, Gary
AU - Rosenzweig, Jaime
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge John Ward, Karen Marcinczyk, Gilit Ullmann and Dr. Fredrick Suchy, who made this project possible. They also would like to thank Dr. Patrick Onghena of the Catholic University of Leuven and Alexandru Cuc for their statistical support. Finally, they would like to thank the STARBRIGHT Foundation, the Mount Sinai Children’s Center Foundation and The Mount Sinai Medical Center for their support in carrying out this research.
PY - 2002/6
Y1 - 2002/6
N2 - This was the third randomized controlled clinical trial (RCCT) of Starbright World (SBW)-a private, interactive computer network for hospitalized children. The present randomized controlled clinical trial (RCCT) consisted of a series of 39 replicated single system designs (SSDs) that compared children's self-reports of pain intensity, pain aversiveness and anxiety in the SBW condition with those in a standard clinical practice condition. Findings from the SSDs were aggregated using meta-analysis. Although children experienced slightly less pain intensity, pain aversiveness, and anxiety in the SBW condition, these results did not achieve statistical significance. The relationship of these findings to the two prior studies of the effectiveness of SBW is discussed.
AB - This was the third randomized controlled clinical trial (RCCT) of Starbright World (SBW)-a private, interactive computer network for hospitalized children. The present randomized controlled clinical trial (RCCT) consisted of a series of 39 replicated single system designs (SSDs) that compared children's self-reports of pain intensity, pain aversiveness and anxiety in the SBW condition with those in a standard clinical practice condition. Findings from the SSDs were aggregated using meta-analysis. Although children experienced slightly less pain intensity, pain aversiveness, and anxiety in the SBW condition, these results did not achieve statistical significance. The relationship of these findings to the two prior studies of the effectiveness of SBW is discussed.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Children
KW - Meta-analysis
KW - Pain
KW - Randomized controlled clinical trial
KW - SSD
KW - Single system design
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U2 - 10.1300/J010v36n02_02
DO - 10.1300/J010v36n02_02
M3 - Article
C2 - 12555825
AN - SCOPUS:0036626692
SN - 0098-1389
VL - 36
SP - 21
EP - 33
JO - Social Work in Health Care
JF - Social Work in Health Care
IS - 2
ER -