Parental feelings face to hospitalization of the child
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The hospitalizatíon of a child carnes with it major
changes, etther in the child's life or parent. lllness and hospttalizatíon
constitute a crisis situation for both the child and the famHy
as it incorporates financiai, psychotogical, relational and social
changes. The purpose of this work and analyze the satísfactíon and
parents' perception on the importance of nursing care during hospttalizatíon
and feelings experienced by parents.
Objectives: To know the opinions and feelings of the parents in
relation to the admlsston of the child 1n the service of Pediatrics at
North of Portugal.
Methods: Integrated this study parents of chtldren hospttalized in
the pediatric inpatíent at the Hospital Trás-os-Montes e alto Douro,
Vila Real, whose children were in the service to at least more than
48 hours, In total 33 escorts that replied to the questionnaire. For
such a study we chose the type quantitative deschptíve. We proceeded
to collect data by conductíng a questíonnaire, and the results
of it were drafted in the SPSS program through Quantitatíve
model wtth exploratory qualitatíve approach.
Results: The age ofthe partícipants is between the 21 and 46 years
- old, 75. 8% of respondents were married, 78. 8% of chtldren was
hospitalized in the first time. We conclude that the mother is who
else accompanies the chtld in the hospital. We had positive feedback
regarding the interactíon parent-nurses since many parents
stressed the good relatíonship with the nursing team (It reported
that "Nurses" and "Nurses and "auxiliaries" were who else helped
them, with 30. 3% and 21. 2% respectively). The feelings more mentioned
were: anxiety -21 answers, sadness-20, fear-15 and hope
with 15. The conditions offered to the parents were considered
goodfor60.6%.