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Preschool children encounter treatment using an intravenous injection. However, the inadequacy of nursing programs before conducting medical treatment of intravenous injection results in children's fear and resistant behaviors in tube removal. This study demonstrated that up to 97.2% of children are afraid of receiving an intravenous injection. However, the rate of a thorough nursing program, conducted by nurses before executing intravenous injection, was 58%. The analyzed consequence was attributed to children's fear in the process of receiving an intravenous injection and may foster children to remove the tube as a behavioral response to fear. In addition, no individuality on the injection fixed strap was noted. However, the behavioral response of children was reduced to 55% through applying an openable fixed strap and well-decorated wards with cartoon wallpaper, simultaneously operating a therapeutic game-based program, and improving the nursing program before conducting intravenous injection. Consequently, the rate of the thorough nursing program went up to 92% while conducting intravenous injection, showing that such improvements lowered the children's behavioral response to fear and enabled good quality of nursing care.