Reducing Anxiety of Children and Their Parents in the Pre-Operative Process With Therapeutic Play

Summary

It is emphasized in studies that child and parent anxiety that arises in pediatric surgery should be prevented or reduced. According to previous studies, one way to reduce child and parent anxiety in the preoperative period is therapeutic play interventions. This study was planned to compare the effectiveness of two different therapeutic play interventions (bubble breathing play therapy and tell-show-do play therapy) in reducing preoperative anxiety of children and parents who are scheduled for elective surgery.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a child between the ages of 5-12 for which a surgical operation is planned
* Being the parent of a child between the ages of 5 and 12 whose surgical operation is planned
* Not having vision, hearing or speech problems
* Not have a mental or neurological disability
* Not being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder
* Children and parents who can speak and understand Turkish will be included in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Change in surgical operation date
* Using another distraction technique

Conditions4

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