Lokasi: STATE AND TRAIT ANXIETY IN PARENTS OF HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN

STATE AND TRAIT ANXIETY IN PARENTS OF HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN

Main Authors:	Chatzoglou,Athanasia, Dalageorgou,Christina, Fousteri,Natassa, Koutelekos,Ioannis, Dedes,Vasileios, Evangelou,Eleni, Dousis,Evangelos
Format:	Article
Terbitan:	, 2020
Subjects:	Introduction: Admission of a child to a hospital triggers a number of problems in the daily life of parents such as un-certainty about the child's health anxiety about hospital stay or other practical and economic problems that cause emo-tional burden such as anxiety. Purpose: To explore levels of state and trait anxiety that experience parents of hospitalized children and the associated factors. Material-Method: This convenience sample consisted of 100 par-ents of hospitalized children in a public pediatric hospital in Attica during the period October-December 2019. In this cross-sectional descriptive study data were collected by the completion of State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) which included parents' socio-demographic characteristics and their views. Data were analyzed using SPSS 26.0 while the sta-tistical significance level was p<0.05. Results: Parents experienced moderate to high levels of both state (MT: 48.98 ± 5.98 Median: 49) and trait anxiety (MT: 48.36 ± 5.26 Median: 48). Parents' view that wall paintings in clinical settings reduce children's' anxiety during hospitalization was statistically significantly associated with state anxiety (p=0.014). Τrait anxiety was statistically significantly associated with parents' view that education on child care would strengthen their role (p=0.027) the view that their child may encounter with difficulties in social or school environment after hospi-tal discharge (p=0.034) and with parents' description of themselves as anxious (p=0.047). Conclusions: Exploring anx-iety experienced by parents is important as it may affect the dynamic of family both during hospitalization and after hos-pital discharge
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