Spending time in the intensive care unit can traumatise kids
Saturday, September 6, 2008 - 11:56
in Psychology & Sociology
Children who spend time in the intensive care unit of a hospital can be traumatised by the experience even months after returning home. Dr Janet Rennick from the Research Institute of The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre and her colleagues have developed the Children's Critical Illness Impact Scale to measure psychological distress in children following hospital discharge...
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