THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STORYTELLING ON PAIN FROM INVASIVE PROCEDURES
Siti Haniyah , Noor Yunida Triana

Universitas Harapan Bangsa
Jln Raden Patah Leduk Kembaran Banyumas Indonesia

Abstract

Hospitalization often requires children to undergo invasive procedures, which can cause anxiety and pain. Preschool-aged children are likely to resist care and be uncooperative when experiencing pain from invasive procedures, disrupting the care process. Effective pain management is crucial to support the treatment process. One non-pharmacological pain management approach that can be applied is storytelling. This study used a quasi-experimental design with a posttest-only control group, focusing on the independent variables of audiovisual and storytelling and the dependent variable of pain level. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select 32 preschool-aged children as participants, divided into 16 control group children and 16 storytelling group children. The research instrument used was the Wong Baker Face Pain Scale (WBS) questionnaire. The results showed that the average pain level in the control group was 5.63, with a pain range between scales 4-8. In the storytelling group, the average pain level was 3.88, with a pain range between scales 2-6. Mann-Whitney test results indicated a significant difference in pain levels between the storytelling and control groups, with a p-value of 0.031. In conclusion, storytelling is effective in reducing pain from invasive procedures in preschool-aged children.r

Keywords: storytelling, pain, invasive procedures

Topic: Nursing Care and Technology Development