Fear of Nursing Interventions and Quality of Care in Postoperative Children

Objective: The study aimed at investigating the relationship between the fear of nursing interventions and the quality of care from the perspectives of children hospitalized after surgery. Materials and Methods: The sample of this descriptive, cross-sectional study consisted of 103 children in the age group of 6-12 years who were hospitalized in the Pediatric Surgery Ward after surgery between October 2023 and July 2024. Results: The mean age of the children included in the study was 9.06±2.08 years. The mean duration of their hospitalization was 3.51±1.06 days. The mean number of their previous hospitalizations was 2.69±3.44. The mean scores obtained from the “Scale to Measure Children’s Fear of Nursing Interventions and Instruments Used in the Hospital” and the “Scale for the Evaluation of Quality of Care from the Perspectives of Children” were 25.43±6.76 and 49.80±12.93, respectively. There was a moderate negative correlation between the scores obtained from the two scales. Conclusion: Children’s fear of nursing interventions and materials used during intervention will decrease as the quality of nursing care they receive increases.