摘要:

A four-bed Chronic Illness Transition Unit (CITU) for the care and developmental support of children who require long-term hospitalization is described The goal is to discharge patients to the home or the best alternative environment as expeditiously as possible The layout, staffing, and equipment, the importance of regional coordination, and components that increase viability of such a program and unit are discussed The costs of construction and the projected costs of service are reviewed It is hoped that others can use this experience to establish pediatric transition units, thereby improving care, developmental stimulation, family support, and placement of children with severe chronic illnesses.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_1

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

The purpose of this research was to examine burnout in full-time child life specialists and to determine whether a relation existed between burnout and role stress (role ambiguity and role conflict) The relationship of individual and organizational variables to burnout were included as controls It was found that burnout exists for child life specialists, bur to a lesser degree than in other human service professionais Role ambiguity was a stronger predictor vanable of burnout than role conflict Additionally, the organizational variables contributed more to predicting burnout than the individual variables.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_2

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This paper reports on the self-identification of hospital preparation learning needs of rural children, both before and after their hospital experience Children who were scheduled for a hospital admission were interviewed in their home settings 1 to 2 weeks before their hospital admissions The interviews were replicated 1 week after discharge from the hospital Changes in knowledge acquisition and learning needs from the pre-hospital to the post-hospital state were examined The study identifies from the childs perspective the type of information and program delivery method most appropriate to meeting the psychosocial needs of children related to a planned hospital stay.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_3

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Twenty-five nurses were interviewed and asked to describe their perceptions of parent and nurse roles in caring for hospitalized children Data were analyzed using content analysis Six types of roles were identified providing nonmedical care, providing technical and medical care, being a gatekeeper, being an advocate providing psychosocial care, and providing general care It seemed that often the nurses need for control influenced the psychoemotional care they provided for parents.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_4

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This study compared mothers', fathers, nurses, and physicians perceptions of parents reactions to stressful stimuli when their children were hospitalized Thirty-six mothers, 14 fathers, 27 nurses, and 23 physicians rated 36 stressful stimuli on an inventory the investigators developed Analysis of Variance and subsequent multiple comparison tests disclosed numerous differences between parents and health care professionals and between mothers and fathers on the Parental Uncertainty, Annoyance, Child Discomfort, and Negative Emotional States Scales Further analyses of ratings on individual items from the scales revealed the bases of the differences Implications for health professionals and directions for further research are discussed.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_5

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Interviews and a drawing task were used to assess childrens concepts of health and sickness Older children were more likely than preschoolers to give specific reasons for illness, but age groups did not differ in attributing illness to personal actions Among children over 5 years, 72% identified germs with disease Preschoolers drew germs as faces or irregular shapes, whde 5- to 10-year olds typically drew monster-like figures and older children drew cell-like shapes Age differences in concepts of illness are interpreted as acquisitions of culturally accepted beliefs, rather than applications of operational logic.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_6

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

A qualitative study based on interviews with nine families was implemented to explore the parental experience when a child is hospitalized for surgery Participant observation during the stress points identified in the literature and interviews with parents both in the hospital and in the home after the child was discharged were the major sources of data Sources of parental stress, parental roles during the child's hospitalization, coping strategies used by parents, and parents suggestions for health care professionals particularly nursing staff, were explored The need for health care professionals to make themselves available to parents and to negotiate roles with parents were key findings.

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_7

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor

ISSN:0273-9615    

DOI:10.1207/s15326888chc1901_8

出版商:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.    

年代:1990

数据来源: Taylor