The emotional reactions of children to illness and hospitalization depends on the type and quanti ty of the stress or tension produced by the illness, by the hospitalization and by the fantasies--either conscious or unconscious--that the child elaborates around both situations. The final outcome is, in any case, influenced by innumerable other variables as well. For example, his age; his intern...

BACKGROUND Child mortality estimates in Beirut are presented for the late 1970s and the mid 1980s, and changes in socio-religious differentials of mortality across time are investigated. METHODS Baseline information was obtained from maternity registries in Beirut in 1984 and 1991. Age of mother, number of children ever born and number of children alive, hospitalization class (1, 2 or 3 withi...

OBJECTIVE Members of the US armed forces have been heavily deployed in support of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This study examined the affect of a parent's deployment to war on the rate of psychiatric hospitalization among their children. METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study. Records of children of active duty personnel during fiscal years 2007 through 2009 were linked with their pa...

OBJECTIVE To describe parents' values for outcomes of occult bacteremia using utility assessment, a quantitative method that incorporates risk preference. DESIGN Computer-based utility assessment interview. SETTING Urban children's hospital pediatric emergency department with 50 000 visits annually. PARTICIPANTS Convenience sample of parents presenting with a child between 3 and 36 months...

Parents and professional caregivers, although united in their shared goal of returning a sick child to health, do not always view the caregiving situation from the same frame of reference. This article describes the perspectives of more than 50,000 parents whose child experienced a hospitalization. It outlines the greatest opportunities for improving the pediatric inpatient experience from the ...

In this article we examine risk factors for severe and fatal child maltreatment. These factors emerge from studies based on different data sources, including official child maltreatment data, emergency department and hospitalization data, death certificates, and data from child death review teams. The empirical literature reflects a growing effort to overcome the measurement uncertainties of an...

Introduction The department of child psychiatry in Razi Hospital is the unique psychiatric unit Northern Tunisia offering full-time hospitalization for minors with mental health disorders. Objectives aim our study was to explore clinical and therapeutic characteristics compulsory admissions hospital between 2011 2019. Methods We conducted a retrospective medical records inpatients admitted Resu...