Title

Effectiveness of art therapy on pain and anxiety in children undergoing invasive medical procedures

Authors

Bhasara Kalpana Ramji¹, B. Mahalakshmi^1,* & N. Siva Subramanian²

Affiliation

¹Department of Pediatric Nursing, Nootan College of Nursing, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat - 384315, India; ²Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Nootan College of Nursing, Sankalchand Patel University, Visnagar, Gujarat - 384315, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Bhasara Kalpana Ramji - E-mail: kalpanabhasara@gmail.com
B. Mahalakshmi - E-mail: mb.fn@spu.ac.in
N. Siva Subramanian - E-mail: sn.fn@spu.ac.in

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received October 1, 2025; Revised October 31, 2025; Accepted October 31, 2025, Published October 31, 2025

Abstract

The effectiveness of art therapy in reducing pain and anxiety in children aged 3-12 undergoing invasive medical procedures is of interest. Hence, a one-group pretest-posttest design involved 41 participants receiving a 20-25 minute art therapy session. Results showed significant reductions in pain (mean scores from 8.90 to 5.22) and anxiety (mean scores from 9.24 to 5.27) post-intervention. Severe pain levels decreased from 97.6% to 12.2%, while severe anxiety dropped from 90.2% to 26.8%. Thus, we show art therapy as a beneficial non-pharmacological intervention in pediatric care.

Keywords

Art therapy; pediatric pain; anxiety; invasive medical procedures; non-pharmacological intervention

Citation

Ramji et al. Bioinformation 21(10): 3843-3846 (2025)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.