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Background: A sick child will affect family directly. The life the family will extremely change compared to their life the illness. : The purpose of this study was to determine anxiety state of fathers with hospitalized children and causes. : The study used a descriptive design. It was a -sectional study carried out between February and 2015. The universe of the study consisted of fathers hospitalized children in a Children’s Hospital in Ankara, capital city of Turkey. The data collection procedure a socio-demographic characteristics and causes of questionnaire and State Trait Anxiety Inventory-S. : The states causing anxiety in fathers were defined child’s disease, hospitalization, taking medicine, being to accompany the child, procedures, diet, comfort safety of the child and the father. The mean state level of the fathers was found to be 48.94 ± 11.68. : Fathers’ anxiety can be reduced by giving information on the child’s disease, hospital and what needs to be done.
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