The Effectiveness of Playing Therapy: Painting and Colouring on Anxiety Levels Preschool Children before Chemotherapy Procedures in Women and Children Hospital of Harapan Kita Jakarta

Widia Sari, Ety Nurhayati, Suhendar Sulaeman, Nyimas Heny Purwanti

2018

Abstract

Cancer and its treatment will cause anxiety and various effects not only physically but also psychologically. One of the things that matter to reduce anxiety in children is playing 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 quasi-experimental 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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sari W., Nurhayati E., Sulaeman S. and Heny Purwanti N. (2018). The Effectiveness of Playing Therapy: Painting and Colouring on Anxiety Levels Preschool Children before Chemotherapy Procedures in Women and Children Hospital of Harapan Kita Jakarta.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2820-2826. DOI: 10.5220/0009953128202826

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Widia Sari and Ety Nurhayati and Suhendar Sulaeman and Nyimas Heny Purwanti},
title={The Effectiveness of Playing Therapy: Painting and Colouring on Anxiety Levels Preschool Children before Chemotherapy Procedures in Women and Children Hospital of Harapan Kita Jakarta},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2820-2826},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009953128202826},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - The Effectiveness of Playing Therapy: Painting and Colouring on Anxiety Levels Preschool Children before Chemotherapy Procedures in Women and Children Hospital of Harapan Kita Jakarta
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Sari W.
AU - Nurhayati E.
AU - Sulaeman S.
AU - Heny Purwanti N.
PY - 2018
SP - 2820
EP - 2826
DO - 10.5220/0009953128202826