Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 21, 2003: Research on Child Health and Pediatric Issues

Klappentext This 21st volume of the "Annual Review" synthesizes nursing research to date on child health and illness! including family issues. Ages range from pre-term babies to adolescents! with a focus on chronic illness. A special final chapter reviews the highlights of the past 10 volumes of the Annual Review of Nursing Research! to mark the 20th anniversary of the Review. Zusammenfassung Synthesizes nursing research on child health and illness! including family issues. Ages range from pre-term babies to adolescents! with a focus on chronic illness.

Résumé
Synthesizes nursing research on child health and illness, including family issues. Ages range from pre-term babies to adolescents, with a focus on chronic illness.

Contenu
Enhancing nursing research with children and families using a developmental science perspective. Pre-term infants: care of pre-term infants - programs of research and their relationship to developmental science; developmental transition from gavage to oral feeding in the pre-term infant. Children with health problems: physical symptoms in children and adolescents; symptom experiences of children and adolescents with cancer; growing up with chronic illness - psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis; children's psychological responses to hospitalization; children living with chronic illness - an examination of their stressors, coping responses and health outcomes. Parents and families: parents of children with chronic health problems - programmes of nursing research and their relationship to developmental science; the sibling experience of living with childhood chronic illness and disability; maternal mental health and parenting in poverty.