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my manager nurse asking me to puplish her study (you can see below ) on nurcingcenter magazines , what are the rules for this, please help me obut this issue to publish articles in here and nurcingcenter.com

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by: saliha koc

determining the effects of hospital clowns used in therapeutic humor on the children's anxiety levels in the preoperative period

our research oriented to "determining the effects of hospital clowns used in therapeutic humor on the children's anxiety levels in the preoperative period" has been conducted at a private hospital among the children of ages 7 to 14 years with no stays in the emergency room. the purpose was to reveal the effectiveness of hospital clowns in assisting to reduce the intensive anxiety of children as well as their families in the preoperative period.

a socio-demographic data form has been used to specify the socio-demographic characteristics of children and their families. children's anxiety levels have been determined using the definitive instrument called state-trait anxiety inventory for children (staic) applied both when they entered the hospital and an hour before the operation following a half-an-hour visit of a clown. working group at private hospitals has been comprised 64 children, 45 mothers and 18 fathers in total. anxiety level of families, on the other hand, has been specified through the instrument called state-trait anxiety inventory (stai).

the data obtained have been evaluated by implementation of methods like t-test, anova, chi-square test, percentage calculation, correlation and non-parametric tests.

no meaningful relationship has been detected between socio-demographic characteristics of children/parents and their anxiety levels specified during our research. however, it has been determined that the relationship between the information levels of parents and their anxiety levels (≤0.05) while there is no statistically meaningful difference between the anxiety scores of parents before and after the clown's visit. averages of the anxiety scores received by children in the anxiety inventories, on the other hand, before and after the clown's visits has been found highly meaningful in the statistical point of view (t 5,73, p=0.00).

consequently; we have determined that the use hospital clowns in reducing the children's anxiety levels in the preoperative period is an effective method; and we have developed recommendations in this direction.

key words: anxiety, preoperative period, hospital clowns