Investigating and comparison the effect of play therapy and storytelling on reducing anxiety in children admitted to the Hospital: a randomized clinical trial

Determining the comparative effect of play therapy and storytelling on the level of anxiety of hospitalized children

A clinical trial with a control group, with parallel groups, single-blind, randomized, on 75 patients and in general, with three groups; randomization with the table of random numbers

This research is a single-blind clinical trial study on children hospitalized in Imam Ali Hospital in Karaj. Blinding will be done on the researcher filling the questionnaires.hospitalized children will be randomly divided into three groups: control, play therapy, and storytelling.

Inclusion: children aged 3 to 10, admitted to the ward for at least 48 hours, staying in the hospital for at least 5 days, diagnosed disease, obtaining informed consent from the child's parents; Exclusion: the presence of cognitive, nervous and learning problems, the child's lack of consciousness, inability to participate in interventions and cancer.

The intervention in the play therapy group will be in the form of playing with medical toys to show the doctor - patient games for children. In this regard, some of the equipment available in the hospital, such as cotton, microset, abaisse-langue and needleless syringe, will be used so that the child can make crafts with them. Also, storytelling through two children's story books titled "Should I Go to the Hospital?" Written by Pat Thomas, translated by Dr. Geeta Mullally, will be read to the child on the first day. And on the second day, the book "Franklin Goes to the Hospital" written by Paulette Bourgeois and translated by Shahreh Hashemi will be read by the child's parents. The control group will also receive the usual hospital treatments.

Reduction of anxiety symptoms; greater adherence to treatment in child patients

In this intervention, the members of the play therapy, storytelling and control intervention groups will have the same size. Hence, for this purpose, the block randomization method, which is a limited randomization method and related to studies with groups containing the same sample size, will be used. Also, in this study, according to the sample size of each group, 25 blocks will be considered. In order to implement this method, the https://www.sealedenvelpe.com will be used.

This study is a blinded clinical trial. Therefore, blinding will be implemented in the evaluators who will analyze the study data. For this purpose, the questionnaires that will be completed by the researchers in all three groups, in the form of a contract between the researchers. Also, it will be specified with one of the English letters above it, which questionnaire was completed by the participants of which of the study groups; However, the evaluators of the data analysis will not be aware of the English letter of agreement between the researchers assigned to each group.

Only part of the data, such as information related to the main outcome and general demographic information can be shared.

The access period starts 3 months after the results are published

Doctors, nurses, midwives, researchers working in universities and medical centers and hospitals, clinical psychologists

Under no circumstances due to commitment to the patient and his companion

Communication through e-mail (if possible to share information from a legal and ethical point of view, such as sharing the primary outcome of the study) To receive information, contact the following email address: fatemeh.abdi87@yahoo.com In the case of sending letter with regard to the current study, the following postal address of the corresponding author is available: School of nursing, Eshteraki street, Takhti Park, Baghestan BLVD

Finding the responsible author's email, stating the reason, complying with ethical and legal issues; In this case, a quick response will be given to the requester.