title: Hospital preparation: the children's story.
abstract: This paper reports on the self-identification of hospital preparation learning needs of rural children, both before and after their hospital experience. Children who were scheduled for a hospital admission were interviewed in their home settings 1 to 2 weeks before their hospital admissions. The interviews were replicated 1 week after discharge from the hospital. Changes in knowledge acquisition and learning needs from the pre-hospital to the post-hospital state were examined. The study identifies from the child's perspective the type of information and program delivery method most appropriate to meeting the psychosocial needs of children related to a planned hospital stay.
authors: St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Gillis
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010343:Patient Admission; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012424:Rural Population; D013223:Statistics as Topic