@article{ref1,
title="Does the "Teddy Bear Hospital" enhances preschool children's knowledge? A pilot study with a pre/post-case control design in Germany",
journal="Journal of health psychology",
year="2014",
author="Leonhardt, Corinna and Margraf-Stiksrud, Jutta and Badners, Larissa and Szerencsi, Andrea and Maier, Rolf F.",
volume="19",
number="10",
pages="1250-1260",
abstract="The 'Teddy Bear Hospital' is a medical students' project, which has been increasingly established in many countries. To evaluate this concept, we examined the effects of a German Teddy Bear Hospital on children's knowledge relating to their body, health and disease. Using a quasi-experimental pre/post design, we examined 131 preschool children from 14 German kindergartens with pictorial interview-based scales. The analysis of covariance revealed that the children who visited the Teddy Bear Hospital had a significantly better knowledge concerning their body, health and disease than the children from the control group. This German Teddy Bear Hospital is a good health education vehicle for preschool children.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1359-1053",
doi="10.1177/1359105313488975",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105313488975"
}