“…Children have to be hospitalised due to acute conditions that may occur as a result of various accidents and chronic diseases such as congenital anomalies, epilepsy, chronic kidney failure, cancers, haemophilia, diabetes and cystic fibrosis (Bolat, 2018;Sarman and Sarman, 2020). Illness and hospitalisation have negative effects on children, such as pain, as well as negative emotions such as aggression, anger, fear of injury, guilt, anxiety and fear (Yurdabakan and Demirtaş, 2019;Selbes et al, 2021).…”