Pet Therapy Effects on Pain, Emotional and Physiological Responses in Children Undergoing Allergy Testing

The Children's Emotional Indicator Scale (Facial expression, Vocalization, Activity, Interaction and Cooperation Level) will be used to provide a simple, objective and consistent method to determine children's emotional behavior during stressful medical procedures. The FLACC scale will be used for pain. In addition, all physiological parameters including pulse rate, saturation value and respiration will be measured and recorded with a pulse oximeter device. Animal assisted therapy will be applied to the participants in the study group to reduce the stress of the children. In animal-assisted therapy, the child will be shown a fish in a glass bowl and a red fish song will accompany the process. In the study, participant children will be randomly assigned to intervention and control groups.