The Study of Factors Influencing Animation to Relieve Anxiety of Pediatric Inpatients with Cancer

Abstract

Mental illness is often found in child patients, who admitted at the hospital for a long time especially with those children who were diagnosed cancer, due to the complexity of medical treatment and the unknown of what they have to confront during their time in the hospital. Normally, children have to be faced with the antipathy and their technique to meet those states is the Fantasy Play. Children will imagine they have power and able to fight with the hostility. Therefore, this study is to focus on finding the way to design an animation through child patients’ anxiety. As first, child patients’ anxiety and proper types of fantasy were studied. Three Child Development Psychiatrists found most factors affecting anxiety in child patients are being separated from people their love, familiarity, the fear of pain and operations. Usually child patients are shy and maladjustment which a suitable type of fantasy is Visual Fantasy. The result of study will be used to design the characters and scenes in animation which the main character is a bashful and inadaptable child who got cancer, a monster is referred to the pain from treatment and scene in a fantasy world would be represented as children’s anxiety. From there, 5 Animation Specialists analyzed those characters, from the variable mentioned above, found that the suitable key words to design a child patient character are Youthful, Casual, Friendly, Generous, Reflective and Elegant, the suitable key words to design a monster are Large gesture, Addictions, Dynamic and Modern and proper key words to design the fantasy world are Classic, Dandy, Dynamic and Modern.