Repercusiones familiares originadas por la enfermedad y la hospitalización pediátrica

Abstract

This objective of this article is to describe and stress how certain psycho-social, conduct and educational problems come up in the families (particularly in parents) of ill and hospitalised children. There is a clinical recognition of the fact that parents have a decisive influence on paediatric adjustment to hospitalisation. Consequently, we propose that hospital pedagogues participate in family-care related tasks, so as to improve, in multidisciplinary manner, the integral attendance to ill children that are hospitalised.