A Study on the Perception of Therapeutic Play and Trust between Nurses and Hospitalized Children in Nursing College Students Before and After Clinical Nursing: Focusing on Comparison Before and After Application Play Therapy to Inpatient Children

Abstract

In this paper, we conducted a comparative study of the perception of therapeutic play therapy perceived by nursing college students before and after providing therapeutic play as a nursing intervention to reduce the negative effects experienced through hospitalization of children and to help them adapt to hospitalization, and the trust between inpatients and nurses. As a result, there was no significant difference in the perception of trust with hospitalized children after intervention between the control and experimental groups. On the other hand, the perception of the effectiveness of therapeutic play therapy and the educational demand for therapeutic play therapy showed statistically significant differences between the two groups. The effectiveness of therapeutic play, the demand for education in therapeutic play, and the degree of awareness of trust between inpatients and nurses scored higher among subjects in the experimental group who conducted play therapy interventions. Through the results of this study, we will be able to formulate therapeutic play activation and measures as nursing interventions, and contribute as a basis for the development of therapeutic play education programs and therapeutic play.