Therapeutic Play on Pain Tolerance and Emotion Regulation in Children

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Therapeutic Play: Therapeutic play sessions will be organized twice a week for 4 weeks during chemotherapy treatment for children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the intervention group.

Study summary

The research is a randomized controlled experimental study. The population of the research will consist of 10-18 year old children who were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and received chemotherapy, who were admitted to the Children's Hematology Clinic of Adana City Training and Research Hospital between 19.05.2024 and 19.05.2025. Therapeutic play sessions will occur over a 4-week period during chemotherapy treatment.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Pain Tolerance Scale for Children with Cancer — 12 months
  The scale was created to develop a tool to measure psychological acceptance in children experiencing pain during cancer treatment. The test version of the scale was conducted on children between the ages of 7 and 18 who were receiving cancer treatment. The Turkish reliability and validity study of the scale was conducted and it was found suitable for use in Turkish children with cancer. The scale is a 7-point Likert type scale consisting of 20 items (0 = strongly disagree and 6 = strongly agree). Some items in the scale (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 items) are reverse coded. The minimum score to be obtained from the scale is 0 and the maximum score is 120. Increasing scale scores indicate an increase in the level of acceptance.
• Emotion Regulation Scale for Children and Adolescents — 12 months
  The scale was adapted to Turkish in 2021. The scale is a self-rating scale created to evaluate the differences in the use of two emotion regulation strategies. The scale consists of two subscales, reappraisal and suppression, and 10 items. Evaluation is made with a 5-point Likert type rating. Items 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10 of the reevaluation subscale; Items 2, 4, 6, and 9 represent the suppression subscale. High scores obtained from the subscales indicate that the emotion regulation strategy represented by the subscale is frequently used.

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