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- Title
The child's experience of single room isolation: a literature review.
- Authors
Austin, Donna; Prieto, Jacqui; Rushforth, Helen
- Abstract
Studies have shown that people who require single room isolation while in hospital often feel lonely, sad, worried, bored and in need of information. A literature review identified only 16 papers reporting on the child's experience of isolation. Findings indicate that children feel lonely, are scared of the personal protective equipment and feel bored. Patients' parents feel guilty, worried and under increased pressure to visit their children. It is also suggested that isolation may affect child development.
- Subjects
ISOLATION (Hospital care); ANXIETY; FEAR; GUILT (Psychology); MEDICAL databases; INFORMATION storage &; retrieval systems; PSYCHOLOGY information storage &; retrieval systems; LONELINESS; CASE studies; MEDLINE; PSYCHOLOGY of parents; SYSTEMATIC reviews; QUALITATIVE research; RETROSPECTIVE studies; PATIENTS' attitudes; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients; CHILDREN; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Nursing Children & Young People, 2013, Vol 25, Issue 3, p18
- ISSN
2046-2336
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7748/ncyp2013.04.25.3.18.e145