The impact on parents of a child's admission to intensive care: Integration of qualitative findings from a cross-sectional study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 72-79

  Colville, Gillian ^a   Darkins, Janet ^b   Hesketh, Janet ^b   Bennett, Virginia ^b   Alcock, John ^b   Noyes, Jane ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nursing; Parents; PICU; Post traumatic stress; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARENTS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 61549127584     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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