New Ten-Item Scale Captures Surgical Anxiety with Strong Psychometric Credentials
A ten-item anxiety screening tool developed at a Chinese hospital shows strong reliability and a clean single-factor structure across two ...
Tag: non-pharmacological intervention
Magic Tricks Calm Young Dental Patients During Nerve Blocks and Pulpotomies
A randomized crossover trial in BMC Pediatrics found that performing a magic trick significantly lowered heart rate, pain scores, and ...
Can Body-Based Therapy Ease Depression? A Major Trial Puts Psychomotor Treatment to the Test
A French randomized controlled trial will test whether twelve weeks of personalized psychomotor therapy can improve quality of life and ...
Lavender Scent in the ICU Eases Pain, Anxiety, and Poor Sleep After Liver Cancer Surgery
A quasi-experimental study from Taiwan found that inhaled lavender aromatherapy improved sleep quality and reduced pain and anxiety in ICU ...
Breathing Training Shows Early Promise for Veterans’ PTSD and Chronic Pain, but Tinnitus Evidence Is Missing
A new scoping review finds only five small studies of heart rate variability biofeedback in veterans, with mixed results for ...
Self-Acupressure Eases Fatigue, Sleep Problems and Depression in Breast Cancer Survivors
A phase III randomised controlled trial shows that daily self-acupressure significantly and durably reduces the combined burden of fatigue, sleep ...
Deep breathing reshapes brain networks to trigger psychedelic-like states
A new brain-imaging study presented at the ECNP Congress shows that intensive breathwork reduces cerebral blood flow by up to ...
Virtual Reality Calms Cancer Anxiety, Major Analysis of 21 Studies Finds
A new systematic review and meta-analysis of 21 studies finds that virtual reality interventions significantly reduce anxiety in cancer patients ...
Brain Training Program Fails to Deliver Clear Gains for Children With ADHD in Rigorous Trial
A double-blind randomized controlled trial of 105 children found that a four-week multicomponent computerized cognitive training program did not significantly ...
Virtual Forests and Mozart: VR Calms Blood Pressure Spikes in the Emergency Room
A randomised controlled trial presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress found that virtual reality nature scenes paired with classical ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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