Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-32). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1992.

Thesis (M.N.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Typescript. Includes text of: Health in child care settings : guidelines for child care providers and early childhood educators, St. John's, Nfld : Parent and Child Health Division, 1995. Bibliography: leaves 105-113. Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-32). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1992.

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The study sought to obtain an insightful understanding of the life-world of youth who have not only experienced long-term separation from their biological parents and families but who have also simultaneously experienced prolonged institutional life in a children'e home. Using a descriptive praxis in the context of an existential phenomenological perspective, the study elicited from participants written descriptions of their personal experiences of the phenomenon of self-fulfilment. The data were structurally analysed, expressed in the form of extended descriptions and utilised as the basis for an exposition/appreciation of the life-world relationships of institutional youth. The target group of teenagers was drawn from a specific children's home. However, in order to enhance the findings of the study, data from a comparative group of youth from intact families in the community were also utilised. The study yielded some useful comparative insights which not only formed the basis for certain recommendations but also served as directions for future research. Hopefully, these recommendations and research proposals will be of some immediate interest and comfort to both reeearchers and practitioners in the field of residential child and youth care

The purpose of the present study is to obtain an understanding of the primary school child's life world while resident at a Boys' Town. The study presents an extensive review of the literature on developmental phases of the primary school child, relationships with himself, his family and peer group while resident in an institution. The study employed the use of quantitative and qualitative measures to elicit information from the child. To enhance the findings of the study, information from a comparative group of primary school children with intact families from the wider community was utilized. The target subjects in the study included all primary school children resident at a Boy's Town in Tongaat. The results yielded useful insights in the life world of the primary school child. These insights into the life world of the primary school child formed the basis for recommendation and served the direction for future research. These insights into the life world of the primary school child formed the basis for recommendation and served the direction for future research. / Psychology of Education / M. Ed. (Psychology of Education)

Dialysis treatment is demanding for adult patients let alone for children. The families can have financial problems and the relations within the family are disrupted. The school attendance of children on dialysis is affected by the treatment. Because of the insertion of a peritoneal catheter and the necessity to wear a mouthpiece among other children the children can feel "different". The aim of the thesis is to determine the needs of child patients on dialysis and the views of their families regarding the illnesses and the dialysis treatment. A further goal was to examine the life of the dialysed children and their families with regards to social elements and how the dialysed children perceive the treatment. We have set down five questions. How do the dialysed children and their families adapt? How does dialysis of the child patients affect their families? How do the dialysed children perceive their illness? What information do the children have about their medical condition? What is the difference between the children with inherent and acquired illness? A qualitative research was used to assess the data acquired by semi-structured interviews. Two sets of questions for the dialysed children and their parents were created for the interviews. The interviews helped to find out how the children spend their time and how they perceive their regular visits to the dialysis centres and the process of dialysis itself. The questions for parents focused on issues regarding family, personal and social situations and the life of their dialysed children. The first research group was composed of 8 children of different ages and the criterion for including them into the group was their treatment by elimination methods. The second research group was formed by 8 parents who regularly accompany their children to the dialysis centres. The research group thus represented 53 % of the possible respondents in the Czech Republic. The chapter on data categorization defines several issues that were most problematic for the respondents. The information acquired from children and parents show that the children in the chronic dialysis program and their parents are subject to involuntary changes in their lives. The changes affect the social inclusion of the children, relations within the family; the school attendance of the children is limited due to their visits of the dialysis centres or hospitalisations. The children are separated from their families, peers and the financial situation is of the family is also affected as the mother often has to stay at home and take care of the child. There are, of course, efforts to improve not only the results of the treatment but also the subjective perception of the patient. The results of the research indicate that the children treated by peritoneal dialysis have thanks to better time options more opportunities to join a collective e.g. in school. An interesting fact is that the children often handle the dialysis process better than their parents because they support their children who rely on them. This thesis should help not only the medical staff in everyday contact with dialysed patients but can also serve as a basis for improvement in other areas of care of chronically ill children. Chapter Recommendations for practice lists sets of activities that with the help of the whole team of doctors and non-doctors contribute to the treatment. The care must always revolve around the question "What can I do to help"? The most important areas are psychical suffering of the children and their families, the dialysed patients? discomfort, dietary restrictions and problematical areas of care.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:33:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:05:22Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 alves_mjf_dr_botfm.pdf: 954308 bytes, checksum: 60520840620d3fef82cfada4db2781b1 (MD5) / Os objetivos da Terapia Intensiva podem ser simplificados em: salvar pacientes com condições médicas reversíveis e humanizar o tratamento de pacientes terminais. Também é o restabelecimento de funções vitais, a fim de ganhar tempo para um tratamento definitivo além de permitir melhor qualidade de vida ao paciente. O desenvolvimento desta especialidade médica tem sido baseado em contatos multiprofissionais e no treinamento continuado. Uma das causas importantes de internação na Unidade é o trauma. Está patologia tem se tornado cada vez mais importante nos dias de hoje. A evolução da Terapia Intensiva e do tratamento ao politraumatizado provocou a necessidade de se entender que tipo de paciente necessitava deste tipo de tratamento, a quantidade de recursos utilizada e a qualidade do atendimento realizado. A capacidade mesmo de um intensivista capacitado em prever a evolução de um paciente é ruim. Vários sistemas de classificação clínica foram desenvolvidos para avaliar pacientes adultos e pediátricos. Quando se associa a patologia trauma aumentam muito os sistemas de escores para avaliar a gravidade destes doentes. Em crianças são mais utilizados: o TISS, um escore de intervenção terapêutica; o Prism e o PTS, escores de instabilidade fisiológica que permitem respectivamente o cálculo do risco de morte durante a internação na UTIP e avaliar especificamente o trauma; também podem ser utilizados escores de lesão anatômica tais como a AIS e o ISS, escores gerais de atendimento ao trauma, inicialmente criados para adultos como o escore RTS e as metodologias TRISS e ASCOT e os critérios de Disfunção de Múltiplos Órgãos e Sistemas... / The objectives of the Intensive Care can be simplified in: to save patient with reversible medical conditions and humanize the treatment of terminals patients. It is also the re-establishment of vital functions, in order to win time for a definitive treatment besides allowing better life quality to the patient. The development of this medical specialty has been based on multiple professional contacts and in the continuous training. One of the important causes of internment in the Unit is the trauma. It has been turning more and more important in the days today. The evolution of the Intensive Care and the treatment to the politrauma provoked the need to understand each patient type needed this treatment type, the amount of used resources and the quality of the accomplished attendance. The capacity even of an intensive care doctor qualified in foreseeing the evolution of a patient one it is bad. Several systems of clinical classification were developed to evaluate adult and pediatric patients. When associates trauma they increase the systems of scores a lot to evaluate the gravity. In children they are used: TISS, a score of therapeutic intervention; Prism and PTS, scores of physiologic stability that allow the calculation of the death risk respectively during the internment in UTIP and to evaluate the trauma specifically; scores of anatomical lesion can also be used such AIS and ISS, general scores of attendance to the trauma, initially for adults as the score RTS and the methodologies TRISS and ASCOT and the approaches of Dysfunction of Multiple Organs and Systems... (Complete abstract click electronic address below)