Therapeutic communication improves patient comfort during venipuncture in children: a single-blinded intervention study.

"Declarations Ethics approvalThis study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the medical ethical committee CMO region Arnhem-Nijmegen (May 24, 2019/N0 2019-5488). Consent to participateInformed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study Consent to publishThe authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication Competing interestsThe authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose. Storage of dataSubject, code and patient identification were saved in an identification log. A key file with password for the identifying personal data, linked to the study code, was saved on a separate file and was only accessible for the researchers. On the Case Report Form and in the database (Castor EDC) only coded data was used, no personal identification data. Data was saved for 15 years. Competing interests The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose."

"Funding Author R.M.S. has received research support from the National Health Care Institute (2017045964)."

"After ethical approval (Ethics Committee CMO Arnhem-Nijmegen, Number 2019-5488), this single-blinded intervention study was performed in an outpatient clinic in a tertiary care hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The study was registered in the Dutch Trial Register (NL8221). Data was collected between January 2020 and October 2020."