Burns-Nader Sherwood, Hernandez-Reif Maria, Porter Maggie
University of Alabama, USA.
J Child Health Care. 2014 Mar;18(1):6-18. doi: 10.1177/1367493512468361. Epub 2013 Jun 6.
This study explored the relationships between hospitalized children's anxiety level, mothers' use of coping strategies, and mothers' satisfaction with the hospital experience. Twenty-four hospitalized children and their mothers participated in this study. Children were asked to draw a person in the hospital, which was then coded as a projective measure of anxiety; mothers were asked to complete questionnaires on their coping behaviors and their satisfaction with their child's hospital experience. The use of more coping strategies by the mothers was related to less anxiety in the children. In addition, the more coping strategies the mothers used, the higher they reported their satisfaction. The findings suggest the importance of providing resources aimed at increasing maternal coping and satisfaction with the quality of care of a child's hospitalization in order to minimize the negative effects of the hospitalization on the children.
本研究探讨了住院儿童的焦虑水平、母亲应对策略的使用情况以及母亲对住院体验的满意度之间的关系。24名住院儿童及其母亲参与了本研究。要求儿童画一幅在医院里的人物画，然后将其编码为焦虑的投射测量；要求母亲填写关于她们应对行为以及对孩子住院体验满意度的问卷。母亲使用更多的应对策略与孩子较少的焦虑有关。此外，母亲使用的应对策略越多，她们报告的满意度就越高。研究结果表明，提供旨在提高母亲应对能力和对儿童住院护理质量满意度的资源非常重要，以便将住院对儿童的负面影响降至最低。
