Abstract

Hospitalization requires children to adapt to various difficult conditions, such as treatments, health personnel, and separation from their families, especially their parents. Separation from parents often causes significant emotional changes in children like anxiety, which could trigger the trauma of hospitalization in both the short and long terms. The study used a qualitative research method with a descriptive phenomenology study approach. It was conducted in the Child Care Room with 11 participants. Data analysis was performed using Creswell thematic analysis. The study produced three themes: i) nurses support the presence of parents during children’s hospitalization; ii) parental presence is the main source of coping for children during hospitalization; iii) Parents have a role in fulfilling the children’s psychological needs during hospitalization.

Highlights

  • Hospitalization requires children to adapt to various difficult conditions, such as treatments, health personnel, and separation from their families, especially their and prevent that condition, it is necessary to have a parent present as the nearest person to the child during hospitalization

  • The study produced three themes: i) l nurses support the presence of parents duria ing children’s hospitalization; ii) parental presence is the main source of coping for rc children during hospitalization; iii) Parents have a role in fulfilling the children’s psye chological needs during hospitalization. mm Introduction o Data on inpatient epidemiological stud-c ies show that the rate of hospitalization of pediatric patients is still high in Indonesia

  • There is no study yet that focuses on the experiences of pediatric patients in regard to parental presence during hospitalization

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Summary

Materials and Methods

Contributions: AH: data collection, manuscript writing, data analysis; NHCD: data analysis, manuscript reviewing. Qualitative research methods along with the ments different from their homes.[2,3,4] This care room has applied the principle of descriptive phenomenology study. Hospitalization requires children to adapt to atraumatic care to pediatric patients. The qualitative method was chovarious difficult conditions, such as treat- atraumatic care has become the sen to understand children’s experience ment, health personnel, and separation from initial competence for every nurse (novice) with the presence of parents in the impletheir family, especially parents.[3,5,6] who is assigned to the pediatric room. The children’s limited skills in adapting Participants in this study were selected to hospitalization conditions have often through a purposive sampling technique. The Data collection and analysis made it impossible for them to cope with following were the participant inclusion cri-. If there ing, reassembling, data interpreting, and do it smartly.” (P3)

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Findings
Participants in this study recount that

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