Measurement of anxiety in 3-9 year old children receiving nursing intervention
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Golda Myra Arroyo; Anand K. Sajnani; Sheilla Magbanua; Febby G. Cardinal
- Source
- Journal of Caring Sciences
Journal of Caring Sciences, Vol 6, Iss 4, Pp 293-302 (2017)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Statistical difference
Nursing
Nursing Procedures
Anxiety
nurses
nursing procedure
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
District hospital
Intervention (counseling)
Medicine
hospital
Cannula insertion
Children
lcsh:General works
lcsh:R5-920
030504 nursing
lcsh:R5-130.5
business.industry
030206 dentistry
Test (assessment)
Pulse measurement
anxiety prevention
Physical therapy
Original Article
medicine.symptom
lcsh:Medicine (General)
0305 other medical science
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 2251-9920
Introduction: Nurses are in an ideal position to provide special care for anxious children admitted in hospital wards. Thus, the objectives of the study were to identify the common nursing procedures done for children and to measure their level of anxiety Methods: A cross - sectional descriptive study was conducted at a district hospital in Philippines. The respondents of the study were children aged 3 – 9 years old admitted in the pediatric ward. The descriptive characteristics of the children were recorded. Venham Picture Test was used to assess the level of anxiety in children. The instrument was validated using the Good and Scates criteria and pre-tested on 30 pediatric respondents. The chi-square test and T test were used to determine the significance of difference between the scores given by the children across different age groups and the p-value was set at 0.05. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 5.1 years (±3.5). Males obtained an "average" mean score of anxiety (4.0±2.0) whilst females demonstrated a "low" mean score of anxiety (3.6±2.3). There was a highly statistical difference between the mean anxiety scores amongst patients who had a prior experience and those who had none (p=0.001). Conclusions: Temperature measurement and pulse measurement were the most common procedures performed on children and demonstrated very low level of anxiety. Peripheral cannula insertion caused the maximum anxiety amongst all the procedures performed. Children aged 3 to 4 years old demonstrated the maximum anxiety when compared to children aged 5 to 9 years.