Advantages for Children and their Families of Psychological Preparation for Hospitalisation and Surgery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12517535 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas A Whelan (0000-0001-9549-7651, Monash University, corresponding author), Robert J Kirkby (0000-0002-8242-0513, La Trobe University) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-51 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1322-9400 • E-ISSN: 1839-3543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/jfs.4.1.35 |
| OpenAlex | W2065770205 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The hospitalisation of children involves not only emotional costs to the child patient and his or her family but also substantial expense to parents and the community. A range of psychological preparation programs have been developed to help reduce both the personal distress and the financial costs of hospitalisation. Most psychological preparation can be categorised into three approaches: information provision, modelling, and coping skills training. Outcome studies to compare the effectiveness of different preparation approaches have been inconclusive. This is due largely to the tendency of practitioners to combine preparation strategies, making it difficult to isolate the effective components. Nevertheless, a range of benefits from psychological preparation have been reported, including decreased child and parent anxiety, fewer problem behaviours, shorter hospital stays, and the need for less medication. Added to this, it has been found that preparation reduces the financial costs of hospitalisation. Future research is needed to better indicate the effective components of preparation and also to identify ways to increase the implementation of these programs
Anxiety · Business · Coping (psychology · Distress · Emotional distress · Financial distress · Project commissioning · Psychiatry · Psychological distress · Publishing · Clinical Psychology · Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units · Medicine · Nausea and vomiting management · Nursing · Pediatric Pain Management Techniques · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2000 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |