To undergo an MRI scan can be a stressful experience for paediatric patients. The good news is that this doesn’t have to be that way. Preparing the children for the upcoming scan is an important element to mitigate stress, fear, and anxiety. How? With a little help of the young patients’ new best friend: Little Lucy. Stress factors of paediatric patients undergoing an MRI scan Before looking at how the stress of young patients who have to undergo an MRI scan can be reduced, let’s first look at the factors causing the stress: Often, children experience stress before the MRI scan actually takes place. They are afraid of the big machine and of the noise it makes. Sometimes they are scared to lay in the narrow space. Also, having to lay still during the scan can be both boring and fatiguing for them. All in all, enough factors that can cause the young patients stress and enough reason to find a way to reduce it. How to mitigate children’s ‘MRI scan stress’? The above-mentioned stress …