The Effectiveness Of Playing Therapy: Painting And Colouring On Anxiety Levels Preschool Children Before Chemotherapy Procedures In Women And Children Hospital Harapan Kita Jakarta Hospital
Description:
Cancer and its treatment will cause anxiety and various effects not only physically but also psychologically. One of the things that matters to reduce anxiety in children is play therapy: painting and coloring. The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of painting and coloring in reducing the anxiety level of preschool children before undergoing chemotherapy at RSAB Harapan Kita Jakarta. This research is an experimental quasy research with non equivalent without control group research design. This study used total sampling technique with 16 preschool age children with cancer. The data measurement tool uses a HARS questionnaire. The results of this study showed that there was an average difference in anxiety levels of children before and after coloring interventions before chemotherapy procedures (p value <0,000, Δ = – 15.00) and painting and coloring interventions also showed an average difference in children’s anxiety levels before and after intervention before undergoing chemotherapy procedures (p value <0,000, Δ = -13.00). The giving of coloring interventions is more recommended to be applied as one of the nursing interventions to decrease the anxiety of preschoolers with cancer before undergoing chemotherapy procedures.
Author:
- Widia Sari
- Suhendar Sulaeman
- Nyimas Heny Purwanti
Source:
International Conference on Recent Innovation 2018
