THE EFFECT OF STORYING DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES ON PAIN INTENSITY IN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN DURING INFUSION
Oryza Intan Suria, Mirasyah Lestari

Keperawatan, STIKES IMC, Bintaro, Indonesia
*surioryzaintan[at]gmail.com

Abstract

Pain is a common experience for children. One source of pain children feel during hospitalization is when implementing invasive infusion. The storytelling technique is a distraction that is expected to reduce pain. The purpose of research is knowing the effect of distraction techniques telling stories on the intensity of pain in children during infusion. This research is a quantitative methods with a quasi-experimental design with a type of post-test non-only equivalent control group. The population of this study was children aged 3-6 years who were infused at the RSIA Buah Hati Pamulang. The research sample was 32 children divided into two groups, namely 16 respondents in the intervention group and 16 respondents in the control group, determined using the purposive sampling technique. Independent T-test results. A value of 0.003 is obtained (P-Value <0.05), and the test decision is rejected. Conclusion: Then, there is a significant effect on the intensity of pain in pre-school children during infusion in the intervention and control groups. With the results implemented by distraction, telling stories can be applied to reduce the pain of pre-school children during infusion

Keywords: Storytelling distraction technique, pain response, infusion

Topic: Nursing Research and Practice