conclusions post-operative pain in rectal acetaminophen group was less than that in intravenous acetaminophen group, and rectal acetaminophen group demanded their first additional analgesic medication later. results data analysis indicated a significant relationship between reduction of postoperative pain and the use of intravenous or rectal acetaminophen (p = 0.0001); in group receiving iv ace...

The aim of research was to investigate: the need for health care information of Croatian adolescents aged from 13 to 18 years; the difference in evaluation of the frequency of receiving information between hospitalized and healthy children; if the hospitalized children expectations about the frequency of receiving health care information differed significantly from information they have actuall...

This paper commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Platt Report in the United Kingdom and traces the history of parental hospital visiting in relation to its recommendation that, 'Parents should be allowed to visit whenever they can, and to help as much as possible with the care of the child' (Ministry of Health, 1959: 38). It tracks how this goal was achieved and identifies how parents moved ...

Parental preparation for a child's discharge from the hospital sets the stage for successful transitioning to care and recovery at home. In this study of 135 parents of hospitalized children, the quality of discharge teaching, particularly the nurses' skills in "delivery" of parent teaching, was associated with increased parental readiness for discharge, which was associated with less coping di...

BACKGROUND Although today parents' participation in taking care of hospitalized children is considered as an indispensable principle, it is still among the concepts with no consensus about. The main objective of this study is to define parents' participation in taking care of hospitalized children. MATERIALS AND METHODS The concept of "parents' participation in taking care of hospitalized chi...

OBJECTIVE To describe practices affecting parents' overnight stays, provisions for parents sleeping overnight and parents' involvement in overnight care of their hospitalized child. METHODS A cross-sectional telephone survey of Canadian and American hospitals with more or equal to 50 acute pediatric beds and more or equal to two pediatric wards was conducted. RESULTS Surveys were completed ...

Hospitalization can be a very traumatic experience for children and their family members. The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of using clown theater art in the care for hospitalized children, starting with an activity developed by undergraduate students in the healthcare area. Data were obtained by observing 20 children and 11 students, characters in the clown theater intera...

introduction: intentional and unintentional poisoning are among the most common reasons for referrals to emergency department (ed). therefore, the present study was designed to evaluate epidemiologic features and effective risk factors of intentional and unintentional poisoning in children. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was carried out in ed of loghman hakim hospital, greatest...

background: the hospitalization of a child is a stressful experience for parents, especially mothers. not having access to theteacher and not being able to continue school studies within the hospital by hospitalized children is a common reason for anxiety in them and their parents. the current study aimed to determine the effect of teacher’s presence at children’s bedside on the anxiety of moth...

conclusions due to the variable nature of antibiotic susceptibility patterns and etiological agents of septicemia, continual assessment of the most frequent pathogens associated with bloodstream infections and detection of their sensitivity patterns to locally available antibiotics seem to be reasonable measures. results from a total of 491 blood cultures, 74 (15.1%) samples were detected as po...