Effectiveness of Bibliotherapy and Snake and Ladder Game’s Therapy Combination Towards Hospitalization Stress in School Ages

Background: The stress of hospitalization in school-age children affects the child’s care and healing process. Stress hospitalization shown by children is individual, depending on the stage of development of the child’s age, previous experience of illness, available support systems, and coping abilities possessed. Play therapy helps children to express emotions, conflicts within children, and feelings experienced during treatment. The combination of Bibliotherapy and Snake and Ladder Game’s Therapy is used as play therapy to reduce the stress of hospitalization in school-age children. Objectives: This study aims to identify the effectiveness of a combination of Bibliotherapy and Snake and Ladder Game’s Therapy on stress hospitalization in school-age children. Methods: The design of this study used Pre experimental with the One Group Pretest-Posttest approach. The sampling technique used is simple random sampling. The study was conducted on children aged 7-12 years, as many as 20 respondents. The statistical test used is a paired t-test. Results: The results showed that there was a significant effect (p value