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Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the effect of finger puppet plays on the postoperative pain relief in children. Methods:This study was conducted with 90 children who were aged between 1-5 years and who underwent surgery in 2016 in Turkey. The children were randomly divided into three groups. The control group (n=30) was given routine treatment (analgesic treatment), intervention group 1 (n=30) was played finger puppet by nurse, and intervention group 2 (n=30) was played finger puppet by parents. Data collection instruments were "Child and Parent Assessment Form", "Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale" and "PedsQL Health Care Parent Satisfaction Scale". After the intervention, the pain of children was evaluated by "Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Pain Scale" and the satisfaction of the parents was evaluated by "PedsQL Health Care Parent Satisfaction Scale".Results: Mean score of the pain scale in the control group was found higher than the intervention groups 1 and 2 (p<0.001). Mean score of satisfaction in control group was found lower than intervention group 1 and 2 (p<0.001). Conclusion:This study highlights that finger puppet plays can be used to decrease postoperative pain by the nurses as an independent role.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the Turkish validity and reliability of the Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale. Method: This methodological study was carried out with 60 children who were between the ages of 1-5 and who had undergone a surgical procedure in the Zonguldak Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Children's Hospital between April and June 2016. For the construct validity factor analyses, translation-back translation for the validity of the language and the Davis technique for the content validity were used. For the reliability, inter-observer compliance, parallel form reliability, item-total correlation, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used. Results: There was compatibility among experts' opinions regarding items inclusion on the scale. For reliability, high correlation rates were obtained from independent observers (researcher-nurse) and forms (Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale-Wong Baker Scale) (98.6%, 94.8%) (94.4%, 94.1%). The results of factor analysis were acceptable: the item-total correlation coefficients were between 0.70 and 0.90 and the Cronbach's alpha value was 0.912. Conclusion: The Eastern Ontario Children's Hospital Pain Scale, which was developed by Patrick J. McGrath et al. in the English language, was found to be a valid and reliable scale in Turkish. It is recommended that the scale be used by Turkish health team members in the evaluation of postoperative pain in children.