Data extraction spreadsheet for scoping review on digital interventions for anxiety reduction in pediatrics

This dataset was developed as part of a scoping review titled "Digital Interventions for Anxiety Reduction in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients" The research's central question was: "What technological interventions are used to reduce anxiety in hospitalized pediatric patients, and what evidence exists regarding their effectiveness?" A literature search was conducted in ScienceDirect, IEEE, and PubMed from 2000 to March 2025.

The query was ("video*" OR "digital" OR "comput*" OR "technolog*" OR "reality" OR "serious game” ) AND ("child*" OR "pediatri*" OR "paediatri*") AND ("hospital*") AND (anxiety OR stress OR "well-being"). For the databases that do not support truncation (wildcard) search, many queries were used with various common variations of each term. Inclusion criteria: published in the English language; involved pediatric participants who were less than 19 y.o and hospitalized for more than 1 day; and investigated any type of computer technology-based intervention, either isolated or in combination with other therapies for anxiety reduction; articles need to present the intervention method, tests and results data/analyses and to be published after 2000.