Efek Biblioterapi Dalam Menurunkan Kecemasan Pada Anak Usia Sekolah (7 – 12 tahun) Saat Perawatan Di Rumah Sakit

Background: The child has difficulty in understanding why they are sick, hospitalization can cause separation anxiety children, which includes protest, despair, discharge, loss of control so it needs bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy is the use book as a medium therapy to minimize stressors, prevent loss, reduce anxiety, and support children coping. Aims: purpose this study was determine effect Biblio against levels school-age (7-12 years) Children's Room Blambangan Banyuwangi Hospital. Methods: Pre-experimental research design using technique one group pre-post test design. A sample 20 with accidental sampling technique. Data obtained from observations before after giving bibliotherapy, then do scoring, tabulating, statistical tests Wilcoxon match pair test. Results: Manually calculation number 199> 52 = Ho rejected Ha accepted, meaning that there differences biblio means significant bibliotherapy on school-aged (7–12 Hospital Banyuwangi. Conclusions: Billion be applied nursing interventions hospital decrease problem keep happy cooperative during hospitalization.