School-aged Children's Perception of Stress in the Hospital
Abstract
PAGE 80 WINTER 1981. VOL. 9, NO. 3 School-aged Children's - t- . Percept ion of Stress in the Hospital by Edna M. Menke, R.N., Ph.D. Hospitalization is a stressful experience for school- Visintainer, 1975). hlost of the available research aged children since it is a situation with which they pertaining to stress and the hospitalized child has usually have had little or no prior experience. Chil- been case studies analyzed from a psychoanalytical dren at this age find any hospital...