<qa>  What is the most effective way to decrease anxiety?Many other interventions have been tried to decrease anxiety with varying success. Most are aimed at distraction. Music therapy appears to be therapist-dependent 12. Hand held video games appear to help decrease anxiety, even during induction 13. Even having clowns in the operating room at induction of anesthesia seems to help -- the study concluded that staff were quite resistant to maintaining the clown program 14. Interestingly, a small randomized controlled trial showed that parents distracting their children during induction with novel toys and books or blowing bubbles did not decrease anxiety 15. 