Story therapy on children’s anxiety that treated in hospital

e-journal poltekkes jogja

2021-07

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Hospitalization will bring some psychological changes in the child. One effort that can be done to reduce anxiety is through play therapy. This study aims to determine the influence of story therapy on children who hospitalized in Wonosari Hospital. This study was a quasi experimental design. The observations is made twice to compare and determine the patient’s anxiety children performed by picture story and without picture story therapy. Sampling was done by purposive random sampling in RSUD Wonosari. The result of this research show if the story telling treatment can reduce children’s anxiety while being treated in hospital because playing is a technique to transfer stress or distraction to children while being treated in hospital.