Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate how play, as a nursing intervention, changes child inpatients' feeling of uneasiness and self-efficacy, or health locus of control. The object is ten children hospitalized in the pediatric ward. Approving of the purpose of this study, they can cooperate in this study by answering the questions.
The method is to play with children for approximately 30 minutes a day, which is conducted for 4 days. Children's feeling of uneasiness and self-efficacy, or health locus of control are measured by the existing scale.
The result of this study is as follows : Children's uneasiness, though not so strong before nursing intervention, becomes weaker after nursing intervention : Health locus of control, powerful others externality was admitted before, becomes weaker for a while, but a week later it returns to the previous level : Self-efficacy tended to be high, and after nursing intervention self-efficacies itself and in learning become much higher : Self-efficacies in friendship and physical exercises become lower.
