Abstract:
Hospitalization is an experience that produces every child who has physical
and psychological effects as a result of the environment, and officers they do
not know. Therefore the effort that can be done by nurses is to provide
distraction therapy with playdough. The study aimed to prove the effect of
treatment on Playdough play on anxiety in preschoolers because of
hospitalization in the Kertawijaya Room Dr. Wahidin Sudiro Husodo
Mojokerto. The design of this study uses pre-experiment with one group
pretest approach. The population in this study were all preschool children who
were in hospital treatment in the first week of October 2018. Samples were 20
children, with consecutive sampling. Playdough therapy for 20 children. Data
collection used a mYPAS (Modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale)
questionnaire. After that, the data processing with Wilcoxon signed test was
0.00 which was <0.05, As for the conclusions in this study there is a
therapeutic effect of playing plasticine on children's anxiety with
hospitalization. The value of preschool children's anxiety before being given
play therapy is the majority of respondents 13 respondents (65%) experienced
moderate anxiety and And a small proportion of respondents experienced
severe anxiety as many as 5 respondents (25%). The value of anxiety after
being given play therapy most of the respondents experienced a decrease in
anxiety as many as 12 respondents (60%) experienced mild anxiety and almost
half of the respondents were 8 respondents (40%). Stress will stimulate the
body to send messages from the hypothalamus to the adrenal gland which will
affect vasodilation and vasoconstriction of blood vessels that will determine
the increase or decrease in blood pressure which is one of the physiological
characteristics of the body when experiencing anxiety.
