en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong>Background: </strong></span>Cancer is a major source of distress such as aggression and anxiety. It becomes a traumatic and painful for both children and their family. &nbsp;Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the influence of painting therapy on the reduction of aggression and anxiety among hospitalized children with cancer (8-12 aged).</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong>Methods: </strong></span>The study was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest and treatment group. Thirty hospitalized children with cancer (8-12 aged), who obtained one score above the mean scores in Spence Children&#39;s Anxiety Scale and Children&#39;s Inventory of Anger (ChIA) were selected from Shafa Hospital in Ahvaz. &nbsp;Then, they were randomly divided into the control and experimental groups. The intervention group received techniques of painting therapy for 11 treatment sessions (60 minutes for each session, twice per week). Data were analyzed using covariance.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><strong><span style="color:#008080;">Results: </span></strong>&nbsp;The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the pretest and post-test scores in aggression (&plusmn;SD: 60.9&plusmn;13.56, 40.90&plusmn;8.52; F=118.79, p<0.001) and anxiety (&plusmn;SD:15.75 &plusmn; 2.97, 10.60&plusmn;2.92; F=118.79, p<0.001) in experimental group.</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong>Conclusions: </strong></span>Findings indicated that painting therapy impacted on the reduction of the aggression and anxiety in children with cancer. Therefore, it would be considered as the therapeutic interventions for releasing the negative emotion in children with cancer.</span></span></p> Art therapy, Aggression, Anxiety, Child, Cancer 135 141 http://caspianjp.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-64-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Anahita Khodabakhshi Koolaee anna_khodabakhshi@yahoo.com 1003194753284600958 1003194753284600958 Yes Department of Psychology and education, faculty of Humanities, Khatam University, Tehran, Iran Roza Vazifehdar r.vazdar@gmail.com 1003194753284600959 1003194753284600959 No Children Cancer section, Shafa Hospital, Ahvaz, Iran Farshad Bahari fbaharri@gmail.com 1003194753284600960 1003194753284600960 No Student Counseling Department, Ministry of Health and Medical training, Tehran, Iran Mohammad esmaeil Akbari anna_khodabakhshi@yahoo.com 1003194753284600961 1003194753284600961 No Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.