The Effect of Storytelling in Pain Reduction of Children with Leucemai

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of storytelling on pain reduction in the children with Leukemia. To achieve the aim، among the inpatient children (330) with Leukemia ofTabriz Children hospital، in 1390، 30 children (14 females and 16 males) were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. Both groups were matched by age and the reason of hospitalizing were the same in both groups. Control group had just taken medicine but experiment group had taken part in storytelling in addition to relief medicine and dosage of medicine was written every day. ANCOVA results showed that the dosage of medicine were significantly different between two groups after last session of storytelling، and in other word، storytelling has reduced relief medicine dosage in Children with Leukemia. Then this study finding suggests effectiveness of storytelling on pain reduction.