Reducing Anxiety of Children and Their Parents in the Pre-elective Surgery Process

It is emphasized in the studies that the child and parent anxiety that occurs in pediatric surgery should be prevented or reduced. According to previous studies, one way to reduce child and parent anxiety in the preoperative process is distraction interventions the child and family with preoperative family-centered activities. Teaching children anxiety coping skills with the involvement of their parents can reduce preoperative anxiety. This study was planned to Comparison of the effectiveness of two different distraction interventions (distraction with play dough- distraction with kaleidoscope) in reducing preoperative anxiety of children and parents who are scheduled for elective surgery