Investigating the effects of animal therapy on the amount of pain, stress and anxiety of children admitted to the pediatric department of Shahid Rahimi Hospital in Khorramabad.

As a human being, the child also has physical, psychological and social needs, and any disturbance in satisfying their life needs provides the basis for contracting diseases. Since the care of sick children requires special attention, therefore, in most cases, the disease causes the child to be hospitalized, which creates an experience.It will be unpleasant. Hospitalization has many stressful factors, ludinginc; It follows pain, depression, anxiety, irritability, etc. ,and the control of this position is the responsibility of the largest community of health care providers, which are nurses. Today, all over the world, the nursing community is always looking for several methods to reduce the risk factors of medical care, and many studies have been conducted in the field of non-drug treatments as complementary medicine and in the field of aromatherapy, massage therapy, music therapy and pet therapy. And it has had positive results. The use of treatment with the help of animals (pet therapy) has received special attention in today's world, and it is used as a non-pharmacological treatment with the aim of diverting the patient's thoughts in order to control the risk factors after hospitalization