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Abstract
School-age children are highly admitted to hospital. During hospitalization children
undergo different diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that require holistic care provided.
So, pediatric nurses play an essential role that provided physical, social, and emotional care
for hospitalized school-age children. Thus, it is necessary to identify satisfaction of
hospitalized children regarding the care provided to improve quality of care provided.
The aim of the present study was to identify the school-age children’s satisfaction
regarding the care provided for them during their period of hospitalization. The study was
carried out at three pediatric inpatient medical wards of Alexandria University Children’s
Hospital at El-Shatby in Alexandria. A convenient sample of 200 hospitalized school-age
children. Their ages ranged from 7 to 12 years. Hospitalized school-age children for at least
one week. Every child was interviewed individually lasted from 10-15 minutes in the
previously selected setting to collect the necessary data.
Two tools were used to collect the necessary data. Tool one: children’s characteristics
and clinical data record. Tool two: school-age children’s satisfaction regarding the care
provided during their hospitalization structured interview schedule. Study tools were
developed by the researcher after thorough review of the recent relevant literature. It included
three parts as physical care, social care and emotional care provided.
The main results of the present study revealed the following:
Socio-Demographic and Clinical Data of Hospitalized School-Age Children:
Nearly two thirds of hospitalized school-age children (62.5%) were less than nine years.
More than half of hospitalized school-age children (56%) were male.
More than one quarter of hospitalized school-age children (29.5%) were admitted to the
hospital with renal disorders.
More than two thirds of hospitalized school-age children (67%) had a history of
previous hospitalization.
The majority of hospitalized school-age children (86.5%) were prescribed intravenous
(IV) injection medications.
The majority of hospitalized school-age children (85%) were alerted about warning
signs for treatment if happened, reported the physician immediately with nearly half of
those children (45.9%) had satisfied to certain extend level of care provided.
More than three quarters of hospitalized school-age children received explanation for
any procedure (79.5%) and half of those children exhibited satisfied to certain extend
level of care provided (49.1%).
More than half of hospitalized school-age children are satisfied to certain extend
concerning quiet during the sleep time, have medical and nursing interventions during the sleep time (51%, 51.5%).
Ninety percent of hospitalized school-age children reassured and calmed during their
frightening, and more than half of those children (52.8%) were satisfied to certain
extend level of care provided.
Total Score of Hospitalized School-Age Children’s Satisfaction:
Only 8.5% of the hospitalized school-age children had completely satisfied level of
physical care provided. On the other hand, half of hospitalized school-age children
reported a not satisfied level of care regarding physical care provided.
It was observed that only nineteen percent of hospitalized school-age children had a
completely satisfied level concerning social care provided.
Nearly half of hospitalized school-age children (45.5%) exhibited satisfied to certain
extend level of care.
Nearly half of hospitalized school-age children (47.5%) were satisfied to certain extend
level of care provided during their hospitalization.