Malathi, A (2011) Effectiveness of therapeutic play on the level of anxiety among hospitalized children between 3-6 years. Masters thesis, Madha College of Nursing, Chennai.
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Abstract
Today’s children are tomorrow’s citizen, so the health of the children is very important in determining the prosperity of a country. Indian journal of pediatrics (2005) indicated that 20% of children have some form of psychological problem and that of 70% of these are helped through the use of psychological based therapies such as play and creative arts. According to Jean Piaget, knowledge arises neither from objects nor the child, but from interactions between the child and those objects. Therapeutic play is one type of play therapy. Constructive play helps to relieve anxiety of the child. Play is essential for a child to be healthy as well as to grow healthy. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of therapeutic play on the level of anxiety among hospitalized children between 3- 6 years in Stanley Hospital,Chennai. The objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of therapeutic play on the level of anxiety among hospitalized children between 3-6 years. The study was conducted by adopting a one group pre test post test research design. The sample size was sixty children between 3-6 years who fulfilled the inclusive criteria and they were selected by convenient sampling technique. During pre test the required data were collected by using the observation checklist. Therapeutic play was given to the child for 2 hours on each day for 3 days. After the intervention completes post test was conducted by using the same observation checklist. The analysis revealed that there was marked decrease in the mean value from 43.93 in the pre test level to 31.86 in the post test level of anxiety. The standard deviation is increased from 7.57 in pre test to 17.71 in post test. The‘t’ value at 18.47 is highly significant at p<0.001 level. So there was significant decrease in the post test level of anxiety among hospitalized children between 3-6 yrs. Therefore therapeutic play can be used as a safe and effective tool, which helps in reducing anxiety.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Therapeutic Play; Level Of Anxiety; Hospitalized Children; Between 3-6 Years |
| Subjects: | NURSING > Paediatric Nursing |
| Depositing User: | Ramakrishnan J |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2018 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2018 09:52 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/5756 |
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