Penelitian ini merekomendasikan penerapan medical play untk mengurangi kecemasaan pada anak usai prasekolah saat dilakukan pemasangan akses intravena perifer.
Kata kunci: cemas; medical play; nyeri; prasekolah ......Medical play is one of the play therapies that can be provided to children, where they are given the opportunity to explore medical equipment in the room where they are being treated. The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of medical play on anxiety and pain in preschool-aged children during peripheral intravenous catheter insertion. This research utilized a quasi-experimental pre and posttest design with a control group, involving 31 respondents each for the control and intervention groups. Respondents were selected using consecutive sampling technique. Analysis of the differences in pretest and posttest anxiety scores in both the intervention and control groups was conducted using dependent t-test, while analysis of the differences in posttest anxiety and posttest pain scores between the control and intervention groups was carried out using independent t-test. The results of the independent t-test showed that there was a significant difference in the mean posttest anxiety scores between the control and intervention groups, with a p-value of <0.001 (p < 0.05), and there was no significant difference in the mean posttest pain scores between the control and intervention groups, with a p-value of 0.528. This study recommends the implementation of medical play to reduce anxiety in preschool-aged children during peripheral intravenous catheter insertion.