The National Institutes of Health has awarded $3.6 million to the Yale Center for the Advancement of Perioperative Health (CAPH), which conducts research aimed at reducing anxiety and pain before, during and after pediatric surgery.
Dr. Zeev Kain, executive director and founder of the center and professor of anesthesiology at the School of Medicine, says the research looks at how behavioral interactions among health care personnel, parents and children affect children's anxiety before surgery and their pain and recovery after surgery.
"We want to enhance the skills of health care providers and parents so that they can learn how to be really effective in helping children through surgery," he says.
The researchers will identify specific parental and health care behaviors that will lead to lower anxiety in children during induction of anesthesia. Similarly, the researchers will identify specific behaviors during the immediate postoperative process that will lead to lower pain and analgesic consumption in children undergoing surgery. At the conclusion of the study, the investigators plan to develop data-driven behavioral preparation programs to train parents, nurses, anesthesiologists and surgeons.
Alison Caldwell-Andrews, clinical psychologist and director of research at CAPH, says key to the research is the multidisciplinary collaboration among anesthesiology, surgery, psychology, child development and nursing.
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