Health Promotion Through Audio Visual and Simulation Effectively Reduces Children's Anxiety Due to Hospitalization

Effects of robot-assisted digital storytelling on hospitalized children’s communication during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…The findings suggested that the robot-assisted DS approach could reduce children's first-time hospitalization anxiety, since a robot as a peer could have conversations with the children, as well as allow them to read the materials and interact with knowledge related to the topic. This was in line with Fadlilah et al (2022), who indicated that the newer things were, the lower the level of anxiety the children had. As a result, when children had a lower level of anxiety, they could cooperate to receive IV, thus shortening the injection time.…”

“…In addition to maintaining the quality of medical care and paying attention to patient safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, maintaining the number of nursing staff, dealing with the shortage of nursing manpower, and reducing medical workload are public health issues with urgent concerns in various fields around the world (Maleki et al, 2021;Stokes & Iskander, 2021). In addition, assisting children who receive invasive treatment, such as intravenous injections (IV), is a difficult skill in clinical nursing practice, especially for young children who have limited communication competences and are afraid of needles (Hsu et al, 2022;Tsao et al, 2017;Fadlilah et al, 2022) pointed out that hospitalized children are prone to anxiety; if untreated in time, this anxiety might hinder the treatment process and increase the length of treatment, thus prolonging the inpatient days. Therefore, in clinical nursing practice, there is a need for interactive health education tools to assist in communication with children and in pacifying their mood during IV treatment (Canares et al, 2021;Wong et al, 2019;Tsao et al, 2017).…”