What’s the least-worst way to prevent young kids from becoming jittery as they are about to have surgery? This new experiment plays with that question: “The Effectiveness of Transport in a Toy Car for Reducing Preoperative Anxiety in Preschool Children: A Randomised Controlled Prospective Trial,” P.P. Liu, Y. Sun, C. Wu, W.H. Xu, R.D. Zhang, […]
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Reduced Anxiety in Forensic Inpatients after a Long-Term Intervention with Atlantic Salmon
This is, so far as we are aware, the first published study that concentrates on anxiety levels in forensic inpatients after a long-term intervention with Atlantic salmon: “Reduced Anxiety in Forensic Inpatients after a Long-Term Intervention with Atlantic Salmon,” Anita L. Hansen, Gina Olson, Lisbeth Dahl, David Thornton, Bjørn Grung, Ingvild E. Graff, Livar Frøyland, […]
Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety Survey
A look back at yet another presumably surprising discovery: “Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety,” Richard Lonetto, Journal of Personality Assessment, vol. 46, no. 4, 1982. The author, at the University of Guelph, explains: “University students, graduate nursing students, and funeral service students completed Templer’s Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). […]
Anxiety—the research journal for those anxious about anxiety
The research journal named Anxiety may have been the most deliciously scary-named research journal in existence. Alas, the publishers changed the journal’s name, long ago, to the more tepid Depression and Anxiety. Here is a look at the journal’s masthead as it was in the good old days before the name change: