Pengaruh Biblioterapi terhadap Tingkat Kecemasan Anak Usia Prasekolah yang Menjalani Hospitalisasi di RS Islam Malahayati Kota Medan Tahun 2019

Abstract

The problem of sick children is a complex problem in Indonesia. At the preschool age, children's activity increases which causes the child to be often exhausted, causing susceptibility
to disease due to weak immune system until the child is required to undergo hospitalization. Hospital is a condition that requires children to stay in the hospital, undergo therapy and
treatment for a reason that is planned or an emergency condition. This study aims to determine the effect of bibliotherapy on anxiety levels of preschoolers undergoing hospitalization at Malahayati Islamic Hospital, Medan. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-post test design approach consisting of an intervention group. The sampling
technique was accidental sampling with a total of 30 children. The results of this study showed that from 30 children there were 28 children whose anxiety scores were smaller after the
intervention than before the intervention and there were 2 children whose anxiety scores were the same before and after the intervention. It was concluded that there was an effect of
bibliotherapy on anxiety levels of preschool-aged children undergoing hospitalization with a probability value (P = 0,000 <0.05). Based on this research it is recommended that further
researchers should have a control group so that the results are more representative and have a confounding factor, namely: type of illness, anxiety level and severity of the disease so that it better describes the child's anxiety during hospitalization.