Hospitalization causes children separate from family, must adapt to the new
environment, body pain due to injury, and autonomy reduced. This makes a child
will feel fear, feel threatened, quiet, agitated, and anxious. Children who had
anxiety can be overcome by nursing interventions, one method that can be used by
play therapy. One of media to play using the environment facility is walkie talkie
or phone cans. This research aimed to determine the effect of walkie talkie play
therapy towards anxiety level due to the hospitalization on pre school children at
RSUD Dr. Moewardi. The research used one group pretest posttest design. This
research used the intervention group without a control group. Intervention used
with walkie talkie play therapy. Population the research were pediatric patients
treated at children medical room Melati II RSUD Dr. Moewardi Surakarta in the
two months in 2015, on October and November amount 315 children. The
research sample as many 32 children by used technique sampling purposive
sampling or judgment sample. Anxiety instument in this research used T – MAS (
Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale) who modification by Wibowo (2011). The tools
used for walkie talkie media play therapy consists of tin cans, nylon, glue, paper
scissors, markers, paper, matchsticks. Data analyses used paired t-test. Before the
walkie talkie play therapy done to children's anxiety level mostly with moderate
anxiety level. After walkie talkie therapy play children's anxiety levels mostly with
mild anxiety level. Conclusions of research there was statically a significant effect
of walkie talkie play therapy towards anxiety level due to the hospitalization on
preschool children at RSUD Dr. Moewardi (p < 0,05)
