Effectiveness of Play Interventions on Anxiety Among Hospitalized Children
Condition: Anxiety
MeSH terms: Anxiety Disorders
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      The study evaluates the effectiveness of play interventions on anxiety among hospitalized
      children in selected hospital of Yamuna Nagar, Haryana. Quasi experimental approach was
      adopted. 60 (30 in experimental and 30 in comparison)hospitalized children were selected by
      purposive sampling technique.Hospitalized children in experimental group were provided play
      interventions whereas the children in Comparison group received only usual medical and
      nursing care.
    

Detailed description: 
      TSetting was selected by randomization (by lottery method) first selected two rooms from
      General Pediatric Wards were coded as E1 (Experimental 1) and E2 (Experimental 2) whereas
      next two were coded as C1 (Comparison 1) and C2 (Comparison 2).

      From the selected settings 60 subjects (30 in experimental and 30 in Comparison) were
      selected by purposive sampling technique. Assessment of anxiety (Pre-test) of the
      hospitalized children admitted in Aashirwad Hospital was done in experimental group and
      Comparison group on 1st day. In Experimental group after taking pretest play interventions
      were introduced to the children and instructions regarding the way to play with all the
      interventions were provided to the children. Though all the children were free to choose the
      play yet the younger children were given simple and easy play interventions such as drawing,
      coloring etc. to obtain more sensory experience whereas the older children were offered play
      interventions such as puzzle, building blocks, ludo etc. with high cognitive demand. The play
      interventions were administered for 1 hour daily from day 1 to day 5 whereas in Comparison
      group all the subjects were given usual general nursing and medical care for continuous 5
      days. No intervention was administered to the comparison group. Posttest anxiety was assessed
      on 5th day.

      Intervention to the control group was given after the accomplishment of Post test for ethical
      consideration.
    

Intervention name(s): Play interventions
Intervention type(s): Other
Intervention description(s): The following play were included in play interventions i.e building blocks, paint, puzzles, crayons, doctor set, ludo, snake and ladder. All hospitalized children in experimental group received play interventions at bed side. Taking into consideration the busy clinical setting, each participant received continuously 1 hour of hospital play interventions each day for continuous 5 days. Although the hospitalized children were free to choose according to their choice but still the younger children would be engaged in play such as doctor set, Drawing etc. to obtain more sensory experience and older children were offered play interventions such as puzzle, building blocks, ludo etc.with high cognitive demand.
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary purpose: Treatment
Keywords: Play interventions, anxiety