ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Ana Ullán and Manuel Belver implement a randomized control trial study with young children on a pediatric surgery unit, successfully demonstrating that the use of parental involvement and play with a plush doctor rabbit toy are causally related to reduced postsurgical pain. The guide is in understanding that while alongside medical procedures, non-pharmacological strategies to relieve hospitalized children’s pain can and should play a more central role because they are considered an essential resource to improve the negative psychosocial effects of the disease and the hospitalization itself.
