Use of children's artwork to evaluate the effectiveness of a hospital preparation program.
Approximately 1.5 million children are hospitalized on an emergency basis per year and are not able to be fully prepared for the event due to the emergency (Azarnoff & Woody, 1981). For this reason many pre-crisis hospital preparation programs are being instituted by hospitals and pediatric nurses. This pilot study investigated the use of children's artwork to evaluate the effectiveness of a hospital preparation program. The 6 to 10 year old children attending summer school at a day care center participated in a hospital preparation program. The purpose of the program was to decrease children's anxieties and fears in the event of an emergency hospitalization.
Wilson
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School of Nursing, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb 60115.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D003625:Data Collection; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014481:United States