The Amelioration of Anxiety after Introduction of Therapeutic Play during External Radiotherapy for Cancer Children

• Main Authors: Tsai, Yu-Li, 蔡玉莉
• Other Authors: Lin, Chwen-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37195707704030494462

碩士 === 臺北巿立體育學院 === 身心障礙者轉銜及休閒教育研究所 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of therapeutic play on the mental anxiety and physical reaction of cancer children and youngsters treated by external beam radiotherapy. The interaction of mental anxiety between the major attendance and the patient, and the correlation between measurement tools were also testd. We measured the Beck youth anxiety inventory (BAI-Y), facial image scale (FIS) for the patient. The Beck anxiety Inventory (BAI) was performed for attendance. Physical anxiety is based on the measurement of heart rate variability (HRV), vital sign, and salivary cortisol, and measured for all the participants. The results suggested that children in the experimental group reported significantly lower anxiety scores and exhibited fewer negative emotions before external beam radiotherapy than the children in the control group. The anxiety between the patients and the attendances is interactive significantly. There are significant correlation between FIS and low frequency power, FIS and HRV, salivary cortisol and heart rate in patients. The significant correlation also presented between BAI, HRV, and salivary cortisol. Therapeutic play not only improves the medical quality and reduces the unnecessary medical human resources and expense. It also induces children to courageously receive and finish radiotherapy. As a result, it further decreases the potential negative influence on the children patients.