title: The influence of two hospitals' designs and policies on social interaction and privacy as coping factors for children with cancer and their families.
abstract: Children with cancer and their families benefit from both social interaction and privacy in attempting to cope with the stresses of a child's hospitalization and illness. An analysis of findings from a study of stress and coping for children with cancer evaluated design features affecting social interaction and privacy at a hospital in the United Kingdom and a hospital in the United States and some of the ways in which these features and related hospital policies uphold the philosophy of family-centered care and support coping. Implications of these findings with the current call for single occupancy rooms in both countries are explored.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. jar83@georgetown.edu
authors.forename: Judy Ann
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rollins
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D005190:Family; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D016134:Organizational Policy; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010372:Pediatrics; D018907:Privacy; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States