Abstract Objective To identify preoperative educational strategies for parents of outpatient surgical children and their effects. Methods Integrative review between March and May 2021, Lilacs, Medline, Scopus and Science Direct databases. Included studies on preoperative strategies with parents of outpatient surgical children, from 2015 to 2020, in English, Portuguese and/or Spanish. Descriptors caregivers, parents, family, preoperative education and preoperative care were used. Opinions, comments, reviews, theses, dissertations and incomplete studies were excluded. Level of evidence from one to seven was […]