Managing Space and Marking Time

Mothering Severely Ill Infants in Hospital Isolation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4620139
AutoresPatricia Mckeever (University of Toronto, Home and Community Care Evaluation and Research Centre (HCERC) at the University of Toronto.), Sally O’neill (University of Toronto), Kathy L Miller (0000-0001-7583-6724, University of Toronto), Karen-Lee Miller (Home and Community Care Evaluation and Research Centre (HCERC) at the University of Toronto)
Año2002
Volumen12
Número8
Páginas1020-1032
Fecha de publicación2002-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/104973202129120421
PMID12365586
OpenAlexW2111019140
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas22

In this study, mothers retrospectively describe their experiences of prolonged protective isolation with infants hospitalized for severe combined immune deficiency. Mothers (N = 5) spent approximately 10 hours every day for 10.5 months in an 11-foot-square isolation room. Dressed in masks and surgical garb, they cared for their infants but were prohibited from engaging in skin contact. Although the rooms' characteristics and regulations remained fixed, mothers' sociospatial experiences varied dramatically over the course of the infants' treatment trajectories. The findings illustrate how place, space, and time affect women's well-being and their social and mothering relations in health care settings

Developmental psychology · Health care · Psychiatry · Social isolation · Communication · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Nursing · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · Psychology · Pediatrics