Tahmasebi Zahra, Maghsoudi Jahangir, Talakoub Sedigeh
Student Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Department of Psychiatry, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2017 Mar-Apr;22(2):102-105. doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_242_15.
Psychological and social health of children with cancer may be severely affected by the disease and its treatment. Successive drawing by children can help them over time in terms of psychological and social adaptation. This study aimed to investigate the effects of drawing on depression in children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.
This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 7-12-year-old children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy. After completing Maria Kovacs' Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), 65 children who had obtained scores higher than 12 were chosen as study participants and were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The children in the experimental group were engaged in open painting sessions for 6 weeks. After the intervention, the CDI was completed again in both the groups. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical methods, such as independent -test, paired -test, and Chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests.
There was a significant difference between the children's depression scores before and after the intervention in both the two groups ( < 0.001).
The results showed that painting was effective in reducing depression in children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy. Therefore, painting can be used as an easy, cheap, and effective intervention by nurses to help children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy.
癌症患儿的心理和社会健康可能会受到疾病及其治疗的严重影响。随着时间的推移，儿童连续绘画有助于他们在心理和社会适应方面的发展。本研究旨在调查绘画对接受化疗的癌症患儿抑郁情绪的影响。
本准实验研究针对7至12岁接受化疗的癌症患儿开展。在完成玛丽亚·科瓦奇儿童抑郁量表（CDI）后，选取65名得分高于12分的儿童作为研究参与者，并随机分为实验组和对照组。实验组儿童参加了为期6周的开放绘画课程。干预结束后，两组再次完成CDI。所获数据采用描述性和推断性统计方法进行分析，如独立样本t检验、配对样本t检验、卡方检验和曼-惠特尼检验。
两组儿童干预前后的抑郁得分均存在显著差异（P<0.001）。
结果表明，绘画对减轻接受化疗的癌症患儿的抑郁情绪有效。因此，绘画可作为护士采用的一种简单、廉价且有效的干预措施，以帮助接受化疗的癌症患儿。
