Reading stories to children in hospital helps relieve their pain and stress
Jun 30, 2021
2 minutes
Many children’s hospitals already have storytelling programmes that aim to cheer up patients. But new research, published in the journal Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, suggests that storytelling also has physiological benefits.
“Until now, the positive evidence for storytelling was based on ‘common sense’ and
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