Mothers' Distress over Their Children's Hospitalization for Tonsillectomy

This is a study of the association between mother's level of advance information about her child's hospitalization for tonsillectomy and her level of distress and adaptation to the child's hospitalization. The data support the hypotheses that: a child's hospitalization for tonsillectomy is a distressful event for the mother of the child; and mothers who are given a great deal of advance information from a physician about their child's hospitalization will suffer less distress and make a more rational adaptation to the hospitalization than mothers who are given very little or no advance information

Adaptation (eye · Distress · Tonsillectomy · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Clinical Psychology · Family and Disability Support Research · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Medicine · Psychology