Healthcare Provider and Parent Behavior and Children's Coping and Distress at Anesthesia Induction.

The article presents the study which examines the impact of parent behaviors on children's coping and distress when conducting anesthesia induction in the U.S. It cites the anesthetic method wherein the Revised Preoperative Child-Adult Medical Procedure Interaction Scale is used in coding the behavior of anesthesiologist, nurse and parent, and the distress and coping of children. The result shows that behaviors such as empathy and reassurance have been reinterpreted by the anesthesiologists to be related to more distress. On the other hand, specific behaviors like talking about nonmedical topics and using humor have been found to be related to more coping in children who underwent painful medical procedures.