Tork Hanan, Lohrmann Christa, Dassen Theo
Department of Nursing Science, Center for Humanities and Health Sciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Nurs Health Sci. 2007 Jun;9(2):142-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2007.00313.x.
Many disabilities and chronic illnesses of children result in those children being dependent on their caregivers. The higher dependence of children in their daily tasks undoubtedly places a greater burden on their caregivers and on care-providers in the health-care system, especially nurses. The objectives were to gain an overview of the literature dealing with care dependency among children and the factors possibly influencing their dependency on care, and to obtain instruments for measuring children's care dependency. MEDLINE, CINAHL, and PsychINFO were searched for different publications from 1995 to 2005. The literature reveals four categories of factors associated with care dependency of the child. With respect to instruments, a variety of instruments were identified but most of them were restricted to children with specific health conditions. For this reason, the paper suggests the development of a new instrument for assessing children's care dependency that is applicable to healthy children.
许多儿童残疾和慢性病导致这些儿童依赖其照顾者。儿童在日常任务中的更高依赖性无疑给其照顾者以及医疗保健系统中的护理提供者，尤其是护士，带来了更大的负担。研究目的是全面了解有关儿童护理依赖以及可能影响其护理依赖的因素的文献，并获取测量儿童护理依赖的工具。检索了MEDLINE、CINAHL和PsychINFO数据库，以查找1995年至2005年期间的不同出版物。文献揭示了与儿童护理依赖相关的四类因素。关于工具，识别出了多种工具，但其中大多数仅限于患有特定健康状况的儿童。因此，本文建议开发一种适用于健康儿童的评估儿童护理依赖的新工具。
