Kristina Weningtyastuti
Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta

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Educative game tool reduces the pre-operation of anxiety in school age children Harmilah Harmilah; Kristina Weningtyastuti; Yustiana Olfah
Jurnal Kesehatan Ibu dan Anak Vol. 15 No. 1 (2021): July
Publisher : Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.29238/kia.v15i1.911

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Educational game tools can be an appropriate educational method for children because it can create exciting play situations  to reduce anxiety on pre-operative in school age children. The objective was to found out the effect of educational game tools   on preoperative anxiety in school-age children. The type of study was quasy experimental study with pre-post-test with control group design. The sampling technique was consecutive sampling with 34 patients. The result of pre-test anxiety in intervention group was dominated by medium anxiety as many as 9 people (52.9%), severe anxiety were 6 people (35.3%), and mild anxiety were 2 people (11.8%). The post-test results showed a decrease in anxiety, mild anxiety by 10 people (58.8%) and moderate anxiety by 7 people (41.2%). The Man Whitney test was obtained  that there was an influence of providing educational game to preoperative anxiety in school-age children (p-value=0.000). Educational game tool has decreased preoperative anxiety in school-age children.