OBJECTIVE (1) To determine the proportion of parents concerned about medical errors during a child's hospitalization; and (2) the association between this concern and parental self-efficacy with physician interactions. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Tertiary care children's hospital. PARTICIPANTS Parents of children admitted to the general medical service. OUTCOME MEASURE ...

OBJECTIVE Low-income, urban, ethnic minority children have higher rates of asthma, more severe symptoms, and more management issues, as well as high risk for academic and behavior problems. This study focused on asthma reported in young children who resided in a family emergency homeless shelter. Asthma rates were considered along with their relation to hospitalization and emergency department ...

BACKGROUND With current treatments, approximately 75% of children diagnosed with cancer can expect to achieve disease-free survival. However, treatments are complex and aggressive, potentially compromising QOL for children and their parents. Although previous work has shown increased anxiety and depression among parents after diagnosis, the recent development of standardised measures of QOL ena...

OBJECTIVES Little research has explored the full extent of the impact of self-harm on the family. This study aimed to explore the emotional, physical and practical effects of a young person's self-harm on parents and family. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS We used qualitative methods to explore the emotional, physical and practical effects of a young person's self-harm on their parents and family. We...

Little is known whether parent's indoor environment quality (IEQ)-related symptoms or health perceptions influence the risk of self- parent-reported in their children. We assessed (i) association parents' IEQ-related with children at school and (ii) parental worry increases for children's symptoms. used two Finnish studies: a national, population-based survey air related problems (n = 611 paren...

The international conservation organisation, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) has much to worry about, but one of its key concerns is Antarctica, which, with its surrounding Southern Ocean, comprises 40 per cent of the surface of the planet. Until recently pristine, with climate change it is becoming increasingly accessible and attracting interest to the vast natural resources it contains. S...

This study sought to identify which commonly experienced burn-related issues parents/caregivers of burn-injured youth deemed most stressful, difficult, and disruptive during their child's initial acute burn care hospitalization, and following the child's discharge. Parents completed an 11-item survey, asking them to rate the difficulty of items regarding their child's burn injury. The scale was...

OBJECTIVE To explore parents' perspectives, concerns and experiences of the management of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in children in primary care. DESIGN Qualitative semistructured interview study. SETTING UK primary care. PARTICIPANTS 23 parents of children aged 6 months to 10 years presenting with LRTI in primary care. METHOD Thematic analysis of semistructured intervie...

BACKGROUND Chaplain services are available in 68% of hospitals, but hospital chaplains are not yet incorporated into routine patient care. OBJECTIVES To describe how families of hospitalized children view and utilize hospital chaplains. DESIGN Telephone survey with 40 questions: Likert, yes/no, and short-answer responses. SUBJECTS Parents visited by a hospital chaplain during their child'...