Influence of therapeutic play on salivary cortisol levels in children undergoing venipuncture.

Rev Bras Enferm · 2025 · PMC12707757 · PMID 41417331

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Thus, ITP may have been used as a coping strategy by the children in this study, who showed a decrease in cortisol levels after the intervention, temporarily neutralizing ongoing stress, even though the result did not reach statistical significance for the study variables.

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