Pediatric perioperative measures of sleep, pain, anxiety and anesthesia emergence: A healing touch proof of concept randomized clinical trial.

•Healing touch and control groups showed no differences in polysomnographic parameters, pre-op anxiety, anesthesia emergence or post-op pain.•Patients with no preoperative support had higher C-reactive protein, glucose and cortisol before surgery .•Enhanced support of pre-op pediatric patients prior to sleep may be helpful.