Clinical nursing research
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Clinical nursing research · May 1994
Psychophysiological responses of parents to pediatric critical care stress.
Psychological factors are associated with how parents cope during a child's intensive care hospitalization. However, little is known about the role of physiological-stress responses in parents' coping and adaptation to such situations. ⋯ Further, parents who were more problem focused performed more child care activities during the experience. The results of this study provide information for planning interventions to promote parental coping and adjustment to the child's critical care situation.