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This work contains a narrative review of the effects of different types of play in the well-being of hospitalized children. For this purpose, the literature highlighting the evidence that supports the use of different types of play to improve children’s hospitalization experience was analyzed. These types of play are medical games, playing with dolls, puppets, or marionettes, playing with pets, and digital or video-games. All of them can improve children’s experience of hospitalization. Despite everything, children can play a lot of things in the hospital, and recreational resources make important contributions to hospitalized children’s well-being. Play is children’s right, also in the hospital, and is a particularly important resource to improve the care that pediatric patients receive in health institutions. Review Article ISSN: 2637-966X Play is a Children’s Right and a Health Resource Play is expressly recognized as a right of children by the international organizations responsible for children’s protection. In Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child of United Nations, play is considered as a right and, in the European Charter of Hospitalized Children, the right of hospitalized children to have their educational and play needs addressed, and the right to have appropriate toys for their age during their stay in hospital is explicitly stated. Play is essential to development because play contributes to the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and youngsters [1]. In children, the relationship between play and health is especially relevant. For children “to be well” means “to be able to play” [2]. In practice, for them, playing is synonymous with health and well-being. The idea that children need to play in hospitals and other health care contexts is not new. Since the end of the 19th century, humanitarian organizations have developed programs to support hospitalized children in which play, stories, and similar activities were proposed as systems to help sick children [3]. What is new is considering play as an essential part of children’s healthcare in hospitals. For hospitalized children, play can be a powerful tool to reduce their tension, anger, frustration, conflict, and anxiety [4-6], to improve their coping and mastery capacities, and their feelings of control and their cooperation and communication with the clinical staff [7]. After their review of the literature on the therapeutic effect of the play in hospitalized children, Rae and Sullivan [8] concluded that play programs for hospitalized children were effective in the reduction of children’s hospital-related anxiety and fear, prevention of anxiety, improvement of self-esteem, and reduction of behaviors that indicate stress. Play can help children to gain control, express feelings of anxiety, obtain information about hospital procedures, prepare for medical events, and transform the children from passive sufferers into active agents of their own care [9]. Several studies have pointed out the potential benefits

Play as a Source of Psychological Well-Being for Hospitalized Children: Study Review