Chaurasia B, et al. - As a strategy to reduce the preoperative anxiety in children, a simple and cost-effective intervention involving the use of incentive-based game therapy in conjunction with parental involvement, was tested in this study performed on 80 children between the age group of 4 and 8 years scheduled to undergo surgery. Researchers randomly allocated the participants to a control group (n = 40) and intervention group (n = 40). In the intervention group, the children were asked to take part in an incentive-based game in the preoperative room. In both groups, anesthesia was induced with parental presence. A reduction in the anxiety scores was evident during the induction of anesthesia as a result of the use of incentive-based game therapy. Also, this intervention led to an improvement in the compliance to facemask induction in children undergoing surgery. It can represent a simple, cost-effective, and easy-to-administer technique that can be easily employed in low-income settings.