Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 1996"

TL;DR: Five family management styles (FMSs) represent a continuum of difficulty families experience in managing a child's chronic illness and contribute to understanding the underlying processes associated with differing outcomes for families and their individual members.

TL;DR: The Faces and Word Descriptor Scales are valid and reliable instruments to measure procedural pain intensity and a majority of the children preferred to use the Faces scale when providing self-report of pain regardless of age.

TL;DR: No significant relationships were found between family system demands, infant caregiving demands, and mothers' coping strategies in 71 families who had an infant 1 year of age or younger diagnosed with a congenital heart defect.

TL;DR: The subjective measures showed that the children were able to identify their pain sites and intensity, and changes in behavior were significant in all four groups, although the toddler group was the only group that showed a significant physiological change.

TL;DR: Major family responses included reminiscing about the time of diagnosis, changing the diet, scheduling daily routines, coping with and managing the diabetes, and worrying about insulin reactions.

TL;DR: The focus is on the family's ability to address the stressful chronic illness situation rather than centering on maladaptation of the family and subsequent treatment.

TL;DR: Healthy Chinese siblings showed significantly more behavior problems and fewer social competence behaviors than a standardized normal western population and major stressor themes of inadequate knowledge, reduced family communication, and insufficient support were revealed.

TL;DR: Developmental and environmental factors that influence the child's probability of sustaining an unintentional injury are discussed and suggestions for client, family, and community injury prevention efforts for nurses are offered.

TL;DR: The results of the DSP indicated subjects were slightly below the 70th percentile for anxiety, depression, hostility, and work stressors and that subjects' social support levels were in the upper end of the low support category and the child's level of illness and HIV status of caregiver did not significantly predict variance in caregiving appraisal.

TL;DR: Parents generally scored items lower than their nurses did and expressed fewer actual needs for themselves, suggesting that nurses may concentrate more on parents' deficits than on their strengths.

TL;DR: The correlation between the child's self-report of pain intensity on the ACCS and of affect on the MAFS was r = .612, suggesting that nurses' use of both an intensity and affect pediatric pain scale would more accurately reflect the child's pain experience.

TL;DR: A beginning model of the young child's pain experience was developed and is presented here, revealing that the pain experience determined how the overall hospitalization was experienced by the children.

TL;DR: Among the various disease groups, adolescents with leukemia experienced the greatest psychological distress, and adolescents did not score significantly different on the Brief Symptom Inventory from a healthy adolescent population.

TL;DR: Of two hundred fifty respondents, 75% or more reached consensus on the importance of 35 researchable topics across five categories of research in nursing of children and their families, and the focus was on patient-centered research.

TL;DR: Investigation of factors that influenced 15 parental decision-making situations regarding pediatric heart transplantation for children with end-stage heart disease found Pediatric nurses have central roles in facilitating parent-health professional communication in complex decision making concerning treatment alternatives of children.

TL;DR: Danish children as well as American children are able to use the Oucher as a method to self-report pain intensity, according to the results of this study.

TL;DR: This study investigated the experience of transferring to adult health care from the perspective of adolescents with CF and their parents, seeing the adult hospital as the most appropriate place to provide care for adolescents or young adults with CF.

TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to review and analyze the use of projective techniques in published nursing studies in which children were the subjects and recommended techniques for the use in research and clinical practice with children.

TL;DR: A successful play therapy program in a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit is described, using a play cabinet designed to provide readily available, sterilized toys that are appropriate for each of four age groups, showing the efficacy of the use of the play cabinet in play therapy programs.

TL;DR: The thinking of adolescents, ages 12 to 14, about becoming sexually active and using protection during sexual encounters was explored, with reflections of youth faced with sexual decision-making focused on self-protection against pregnancy and disease.

TL;DR: Although further instrument validation is suggested, this pilot study of the SPSS:PICU instrument proved to be reliable in assessing Hispanic parents' perceptions of stress.

TL;DR: An interdisciplinary team of professionals developed and piloted a clinical tool, the Feeding Checklist, for assisting observations of feeding interactions with nonorganic failure-to-thrive (NOFTT) clients and found similar behavior patterns significantly differentiating between NOFTT and Thriving dyads.

TL;DR: The preschoolers with spina bifida rated themselves as significantly different on physical and cognitive competence but not on maternal or peer acceptance and the clinical nursing implications of these data are discussed.

TL;DR: Subjects with a history of abuse were nearly seven times more likely to attempt suicide than those without and health care should include screening to identify victims of violence, evaluation for suicidal ideation and history of attempts, and psychotherapeutic counseling.

TL;DR: Analysis using a grounded theory methodology showed important adaptations in the physiological, role function, interdependence, and self-concept modes of adaptation in foster parents of children with developmental disabilities.

TL;DR: Nurses play an integral role in provision and coordination of the multifaceted health care required by medically fragile infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

TL;DR: The literature, social issues, and some interventions available to nursing professionals to assist children and families in coping with the impact of TV on children's lives are reviewed.

TL;DR: Differences in the numbers and types of parent-reported injury-associated behaviors and life events among injured, ill, and well preschool children were found and future studies should use instruments derived from this model.