Showing papers in "Journal of Pediatric Nursing in 2001"

TL;DR: The amount of control that parents of children with chronic illness wanted over their hospitalized child's care, and the degree to which parents felt health care professionals valued their expertise, was examined in a national sample of 50 parent caregivers.

TL;DR: Increased understanding of family experiences with long-term childhood technology dependence can provide nurses with additional strategies for providing optimal care to this population.

TL;DR: The results indicated that irrespective of age, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status, all the adolescents believed that they were resilient; however, overcoming adversities and being resilient were different depending on the presence or absence of consistent, loving, caring, mentoring adults who helped the adolescent traverse the adversities of life.

TL;DR: The results can be used in future research to develop and test nursing actions that can influence a perceived sense of self-esteem and hopefulness and potentially allow for continued psychosocial development and effective coping among these adolescents during treatment and into survivorship.

TL;DR: Differences in strategies used by mothers and fathers in coping with their child's insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus were identified, with mothers using more planful problem-solving strategies than fathers.

TL;DR: Content analyses of the two major categories in the study, recruitment and retention, yielded 10 themes, which included adolescents' knowledge about their disease, attitudes and expectations of self-care classes, and the role of health care providers in recruitment and retaining for research studies.

TL;DR: Think First for Kids (TFFK) as discussed by the authors ) is an injury prevention program for children grades 1, 2, and 3, among intervention and controls schools, which was used to evaluate the outcome of implementing TFFK, and found that the intervention children had a significantly greater increase in knowledge about the brain and spinal cord and safe behaviors to prevent traumatic injury.

TL;DR: It was found that, despite accessing a variety of respite services, the participants perceived limited actual respite from caregiving, and increased preparation ofrespite care providers and revision of available services may be means for achieving respite for primary caregivers and their families.

TL;DR: This report examines why researchers may be reluctant to adopt the qualitative paradigm and proposes that this reluctance may stem from researchers' perceiving children as being less competent and social than adults, which would explain the need to research children solely from an objective, impersonal stance.

TL;DR: This report discusses adolescent research recruitment strategies in general and specifically, those developed by a research team for a rural school setting, and specific strategies regarding access and culture of the rural setting, collaboration, and recruitment procedures in relation to their use to recruit adolescent subjects from rural schools.

TL;DR: The sense of mastery was found to act as a mediator between uncertainty and anxiety, whereas uncertainty was a good predictor of boundary ambiguity.

TL;DR: Transitional health-related issues facing the adolescent with congenital heart disease including medical follow-up, insurability, employability, sexuality, and reproduction are described.

TL;DR: Cultural constructions were more likely to be considered by the Australian and British staff than the Indonesian and Thai staff, and this may have been influenced by the prevailing culture of medical dominance in those countries.

TL;DR: It was found that there were significant differences between depression scores of children with cancer and children that are healthy.

TL;DR: Analysis revealed that parents in all countries were primarily concerned with treating the child's illness and the Child's recovery, but this was a much larger consideration in Indonesia and Thailand, where no social security systems exist, than in Australia and Britain.

TL;DR: This study describes the influence of grandmothers on parental competence among urban African American adolescent mothers, using a model adapted from Belsky's (1984) Determinants of Parenting Process Model.

TL;DR: There was a statistically significant change in the number of scald burn prevention measures implemented by parents after public health nurses provided teaching and changes in parental behavior were correlated with ethnicity.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the Keys to Caregiving program shows promise as a method of improving adolescent mothers' interactions with their infants.

TL;DR: This article attempts to clarify the special considerations regarding growth and nutrition, development, physical activity, immunizations, dental care, use of over-the-counter medications, and perioperative concerns for children with congenital heart defects.

TL;DR: The results offer initial support for the reliability and validity of the revised PPUS, which was revised based on a review of the literature and judged by nurse and parent experts.

TL;DR: Inaccurate references hinder retrieval of documents, may prevent researchers from examining all of the work by an author, and may result in authors not getting credit for their work.

TL;DR: Findings revealed that the style of parent decision making ranged from a desire to make an independent, autonomous choice to a wish for an authoritarian, paternalistic choice in decisions related to cardiac transplantation.

TL;DR: A statistically significant relationship between lifetime cigarette use and ethnicity was found and nurses and other providers must recognize that cigarette smoking may indicate other risk behaviors common among adolescents.

TL;DR: The relatively low number of correct responses suggests a need for additional training opportunities that would incorporate cognitive developmental theory into clinical practice for nurses and other health care professionals who plan to work with children.

TL;DR: There was a significant increase in parenting self-confidence after the intervention, and a larger study is planned to continue development of the intervention.

TL;DR: Although a great deal has been accomplished, much work still remains in lowering the number of children injured or killed by preventable injuries, according tojury facts: Childhood injury, 2001.

TL;DR: Investigation of injuries among Old-Order Amish in Pennsylvania found that injuries may be preventable if age-appropriate tasks are assigned to children and they are properly supervised.

TL;DR: Internal subsets of the Child Behavior Check List (CBCL)/4-18 were performed, including withdrawn aggressive behaviors, somatic complaints, and anxiety/depression tests, and the results showed that factors influencing withdrawn aggressive behavior were low parent education, poor economic status of the family, and aggravation of the hemodynamicstatus of the disease.

TL;DR: Results from the study indicated that infants with FTT exhibited considerably more negative behaviors and exhibited low heart rate variability, suggesting that there may be a physiologic basis to the behaviors that are exhibited by infants withFTT.