PICU hospitalization can have a profound impact on child survivors and their families. There is limited research on children's long-term recovery within the context of the family following critical illness. This study aimed to explore children's and parents' perceptions of long-term psychological and behavioral responses within the context of the family one year following PICU hospitalization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs
May 2018
Objective: To discover parents' perceptions of closeness to and separation from their preterm infants in the NICU.
Design: Qualitative descriptive.
Setting: Urban Level III NICU.
Objective: Pain is a commonly experienced symptom for children and adolescents diagnosed with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The purpose of this integrative review was to describe the pain experience of children and adolescents with OI as well as critically appraise the content and methods of studies assessing OI pain.
Methods: Five electronic bibliographic databases were searched.