Traffic accident has become a major problem threatening children's health and life in modern times, and the psychological change of surviving children is related to their future growth. This article discusses the psychological condition and nursing after amputation in childhood traffic accident, hoping that it will be helpful for children to recover their mental health.

Psychological change

Fear and anxiety. Children usually do not have the concept of disease and hospitalization. They will feel very upset while leaving they parents to hospital. The initial admission will appear degenerative phenomenon, such as bed-wetting, crying, refusing to eat and so on.

Some children cry, resist treatment, and some protest with silence.

Anxiety is a short-term emotional state that is related to age and gender. According to research, children with unintentional injury have obvious anxiety and depression, and the coping style is mostly negative, and the active coping is insufficient.

Children with avoidance and withdrawal will bury this injury deep in their hearts. When some situations occur suddenly, children cannot respond with behaviors in line with their own age, and often seek support and protection from others with childish behaviors below their age.

According to the study, the incidence of depression in orthopedic diseases was 68.75%. Children with amputation caused by accidents such as car accidents, electric injuries and natural disasters are seriously injured in body and mind, and their depression is very serious.

Irritability are a realistic emotional response to amputation and can be aggravated when combined with stump or phantom pain. Often antagonistic behavior, such as noisy, irritable. Because of the sudden accident, the child has no psychological preparation, but also can not accept the reality of amputation.

Psychological care

According to the doctor's advice to give analgesic drugs to reduce the psychological burden of children afraid of pain, mainly anti-anxiety drugs. At the same time can also take different psychological nursing according to the characteristics of different ages. As a non-drug assisted intervention, music intervention has a good effect on reducing pain, enhancing children's comfort and promoting recovery. Adrenalin has the effect of increasing heart rate and increasing the blood pressure. Music can make the patient’s adrenalin secretion reducing. Adrenalin secretion mainly depends on sympathetic nerve regulation, emotional fluctuation (nervousness, anxiety, fear, etc.) can become an induced signal.

Children's limbs have different degrees of psychological abnormalities and the strong desire to restore the complete limb (finger) body because of acquired loss, which should be patient and perseverance enough, the use of a large number of facts repeatedly preach, care, encourage children. Mobilize similar children to appear to preach, mobilize parents to persuade, give their psychological and physical support, with gentle, considerate language comfort, encourage children to establish the confidence to overcome the disease, and give timely praise.