Çivril Şehit Hilmi Öz State Hospital, Denizli, Turkey.
Gazi University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Ankara, Turkey.
Arch Psychiatr Nurs. 2022 Oct;40:50-55. doi: 10.1016/j.apnu.2022.04.007. Epub 2022 Apr 28.
Traditional children's games can protect the physical, emotional, and mental health of children. This study was conducted to determine the effect of traditional children's games on internet addiction, social skills, and stress level.
A pre-test/post-test quasi-experimental design with a control group was used. The population of the study consisted of a fifth- and sixth-grade students studying at two secondary schools in a city of Turkey. A total of 42 students - 20 in the intervention group and 22 in the control group - were included in the study. The Family-Child Internet Addiction Scale, the Social Skills Assessment Scale, the Social Skills Scale, and the Perceived Stress Scale in Children (8-11 years) were used to collect the data. The intervention group received eight weeks of traditional children's games.
There was no significant difference between the intervention and control groups in terms of internet use, social skills, and stress level in the pre-test (p > 0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between groups in terms of daily and weekly internet use in the post-test (p < 0.05). The mean scores regarding social skills of the intervention group increased after the games compared with the control group (p < 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups in terms of stress-level mean scores (p > 0.05).
The results showed that traditional children's games may be effective in reducing internet use and increasing social skills, however they do not affect stress level. Childhood is important for physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. Therefore, in the school settings, traditional children's games can be used for the protection and promotion of children's health.
传统儿童游戏可以保护儿童的身心健康。本研究旨在确定传统儿童游戏对网瘾、社交技能和压力水平的影响。
采用前后测准实验设计，设有对照组。研究对象为土耳其某城市两所中学的五、六年级学生。共有 42 名学生（干预组 20 名，对照组 22 名）参与了这项研究。采用家庭-儿童网络成瘾量表、社交技能评估量表、社交技能量表和儿童感知压力量表（8-11 岁）收集数据。干预组接受了八周的传统儿童游戏。
在预测试中，干预组和对照组在网络使用、社交技能和压力水平方面没有显著差异（p>0.05）。在后测试中，两组在日常和每周网络使用方面存在统计学差异（p<0.05）。与对照组相比，干预组的社交技能平均得分在游戏后有所提高（p<0.05）。两组在压力水平平均得分方面没有统计学差异（p>0.05）。
结果表明，传统儿童游戏可能有助于减少网络使用和提高社交技能，但对压力水平没有影响。童年期对身体、认知和心理社会发展很重要。因此，在学校环境中，可以使用传统儿童游戏来保护和促进儿童的健康。
