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Analyses suggest that children's procedural anxiety mediates the relation between parents' anticipatory anxiety and children's procedural pain. Thus, targeting parentsÂ’ preprocedural anxiety might be beneficial to the parents as well as the children undergoing a distressing medical procedure.



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