PENGARUH TERAPI SENTUHAN TERAPEUTIK PERAWAT TERHADAP STRES HOSPITALISASI ANAK USIA 3-6 TAHUN YANG DILAKUKAN PROSEDUR PEMASANGAN INFUS DI RS ADI HUSADA SURABAYA PENELITIAN QUASY EXPERIMENTAL

Infusion installation procedures and stress of hospitalization could be the first crisis faced by children. At preschool age, children were treated in hospital and procedure, infusion showed maladaptive response. Stress hospitalization is a response of person's body duringreceived treatment at the hospital. Therapeutic touch is a nurse specific exercise therapy who developed a touch contact and noncontact useful to reduce the maladaptive stress responses that do therapeutic touch therapy when a child showed behavioral stress. The study aimed to analyze the effect of therapeutic touch therapy to stress hospitalization children aged 3-6 years who performed the procedure infusion. This research used quasy-experimental with pre and post experiment. The total sampel were 24 responden who were taken by using consecutive sampling technique. Independent variable of this study wastherapeutic touch therapy and the dependent variable was stress hospitalization. Data were taken by using standard operational procedures (SPO) as a instrument and observation sheet then analyzed with Wilcoxon signed rank test. The results of the treatment groups showed a significance level at α = 0.05 meaning hospitalization stress caused of the infusion procedure has reduced because the results showed p = 0.003. The result of Mann-Whithney showed a significant level of p