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lth problems experienced by parents of kids in long-term plenarna predavanja | plenary lectures
hospitalisations
Maria de Lurdes Lopes Freitas Lomba, Rafaela Oliveira, Inês da Luz Abreu,
Ruben Pinto, Rodrigo Rato, Sofia Macedo
Coimbra Nursing School, Rua Quinta da Portela n. 91 2. esq, 3030 481 Coimbra,
Portugal
Background: Parental participation now has become an accepted feature of the
care of children in hospital. However, the financial, social and personal costs to
parents of their involvement in the care of their hospitalized children have re-
ceived little attention. On the other hand, a child’s hospitalization is an event
that occurs, in most cases, unexpectedly, having a significative impact on par-
ents‘ health in such a way that there is a positive relationship between parental
anxiety and the length of the child‘s hospitalization. Aim: To synthesize and an-
alyse the existing evidence on the health problems experienced by parents of
children in a long-term hospital stay.
Method: An on-line integrative review was carried out, using a literature search
in three different health databases. Scientific articles were selected from MED-
LINE, SciELO and CINAHL. Only parents of children (with ages between 0 and
18 years) submitted to long-term hospitalizations were included. Parents with
any kind of mental or psychiatric disorder were excluded from the review. A
six-step method was used to develop the revision and to analyse the results.
Results: A child’s hospital stay holds major changes in the routines and well-be-
ing of a family. Parents present a need for care of themselves to nurses whose
primary patients are children. Children’s hospitalization causes their parents
anxiety, which presents a much higher rate on mothers of male infants, as well
as stress and sleep disorders in most cases. This condition can also lead to
other pathologies such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus type II or
stroke.
Conclusion: A long-term child´s hospitalization requires their parents an enor-
mous variety of changes, affecting their health and well-being. Thereby, nurs-
es’ interventions should focus on identifying the adversities experienced by the
parents, improving the adaptation process and sharing care, in order to pro-
mote not only children well-being but their parents as well. Considering this,
meeting family-centred care expectations is an additional paediatrics nurse
challenge. Future studies on the strategies used by parents during their child’s
long-term hospitalization and its evaluation should be considered.
Key words: long-term hospital stay, parents, anxiety, stress, sleep disorders
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hospitalisations
Maria de Lurdes Lopes Freitas Lomba, Rafaela Oliveira, Inês da Luz Abreu,
Ruben Pinto, Rodrigo Rato, Sofia Macedo
Coimbra Nursing School, Rua Quinta da Portela n. 91 2. esq, 3030 481 Coimbra,
Portugal
Background: Parental participation now has become an accepted feature of the
care of children in hospital. However, the financial, social and personal costs to
parents of their involvement in the care of their hospitalized children have re-
ceived little attention. On the other hand, a child’s hospitalization is an event
that occurs, in most cases, unexpectedly, having a significative impact on par-
ents‘ health in such a way that there is a positive relationship between parental
anxiety and the length of the child‘s hospitalization. Aim: To synthesize and an-
alyse the existing evidence on the health problems experienced by parents of
children in a long-term hospital stay.
Method: An on-line integrative review was carried out, using a literature search
in three different health databases. Scientific articles were selected from MED-
LINE, SciELO and CINAHL. Only parents of children (with ages between 0 and
18 years) submitted to long-term hospitalizations were included. Parents with
any kind of mental or psychiatric disorder were excluded from the review. A
six-step method was used to develop the revision and to analyse the results.
Results: A child’s hospital stay holds major changes in the routines and well-be-
ing of a family. Parents present a need for care of themselves to nurses whose
primary patients are children. Children’s hospitalization causes their parents
anxiety, which presents a much higher rate on mothers of male infants, as well
as stress and sleep disorders in most cases. This condition can also lead to
other pathologies such as hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus type II or
stroke.
Conclusion: A long-term child´s hospitalization requires their parents an enor-
mous variety of changes, affecting their health and well-being. Thereby, nurs-
es’ interventions should focus on identifying the adversities experienced by the
parents, improving the adaptation process and sharing care, in order to pro-
mote not only children well-being but their parents as well. Considering this,
meeting family-centred care expectations is an additional paediatrics nurse
challenge. Future studies on the strategies used by parents during their child’s
long-term hospitalization and its evaluation should be considered.
Key words: long-term hospital stay, parents, anxiety, stress, sleep disorders
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