How nurses can help reduce anxiety about healthcare appointments
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How nurses can help reduce anxiety about healthcare appointments

Jennifer Trueland Health journalist

For people with learning disabilities, a health appointment can be a challenging and anxious time, and reasonable adjustments need to be made to reassure them

Attending healthcare appointments can be challenging for people with learning disabilities, prompting anxiety that can keep them away.

Learning Disability Practice. 25, 2, 11-13. doi: 10.7748/ldp.25.2.11.s4

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