Abstract:
Hospitalization is a new experience that can make the child afraid; it can take
effect for his real and psychology because of a new environment and the officer.
Afraid feels and uncertain feeling is a danger warning that can make the children
take action for the threat. As a result, the child is not cooperative. Then the nurse
can give the child distraction therapy with playing therapy. Playing therapy is to
change the children problematic are playing with a situation. This research is to
prove the influence of therapy playing cut and stick paper on anxiety in preschool
children hospitalization. The population is all of the preschool children, with
design pre-experiment with one group pretest-posttest approach. The Sample 15
children are taken with consecutive sampling. 15 child is given playing therapy
playing cut and stick paper. Collection of data taking with Spence Children’s
Anxiety Scale. Then data is processed and tested by modus analysis. The anxiety
score of the child before is given playing therapy is 9 (60%) normal anxiety, 5
(33,3%) slight anxiety, 1 (6,7%) medium anxiety. The anxiety score of the child
after given playing therapy is 15 (100%) decreased anxiety. There was a change
from before and after therapy to play cutting and sticking paper. Decreased
anxiety from this stressors is delivered on the hypothalamus that will stimulate the
adrenal glands to perform vasodilatation of blood vessels, so that blood pressure
decreases.
