Family Experience With Hospital Care Teams: A Qualitative Investigation.

Objective: Research on families' experiences in hospital settings has typically focused on quantitative assessments of patient experience or on narrow aspects of hospital care, specific conditions, or particular service lines or units. The current study provides depth of insight into cross-cutting issues experienced by families across hospitals in the United States.

Patients And Methods: Parents and guardians of children who spent at least 1 night in a hospital setting during the last 12 months were recruited from KnowledgePanel, a probability-based online panel that is geographically diverse and representative of the US population.

Evaluation of a protocol for eliciting narrative accounts of pediatric inpatient experiences of care.

Objective: To evaluate the measurement properties of a set of six items designed to elicit narrative accounts of pediatric inpatient experience.

Data Sources: Data came from 163 participants recruited from a probability-based online panel of U.S.

Cognitive adaptation theory as a predictor of adjustment to emerging adulthood for youth with and without type 1 diabetes.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to determine whether resilience, defined by cognitive adaptation theory, predicted emerging adulthood outcomes among youth with and without type 1 diabetes.

Methods: Youth with (n=118) and without type 1 diabetes (n=122), who were part of a previous longitudinal study during adolescence, completed on-line questionnaires during their senior year of high school and one and two years later. They were average age 18, 53% female, and 93% white.

Friendship and romantic relationships among emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes.

Objective: To examine whether friendship and romantic relationships of emerging adults with type 1 diabetes differed from those of a comparison group, and to determine whether these relationships were associated with psychological and diabetes health outcomes.

Methods: High school seniors with (n = 122) and without (n = 118) type 1 diabetes were assessed annually for 3 years. Friend and romantic relationship variables, psychological distress, life satisfaction, eating disturbances, and, for those with diabetes, diabetes outcomes were assessed.

Relations of behavioral autonomy to health outcomes among emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes.

Objective: To examine the relation of behavioral autonomy to psychological, behavioral, and physical health among emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes.

Methods: High school seniors with (n = 118) and without type 1 diabetes (n = 122) completed online questionnaires for three consecutive years. Behavioral autonomy, psychological health, risk behaviors, and diabetes outcomes were assessed.

Population-level trends in posttreatment cancer survivors' concerns and associated receipt of care: results from the 2006 and 2010 LIVESTRONG surveys.

Unlabelled: There is a need to better understand the posttreatment concerns of the nearly 14 million survivors of cancer alive in the United States today and their receipt of care. Using data from 2,910 posttreatment survivors of cancer from the 2006 or 2010 LIVESTRONG Surveys, the authors examined physical, emotional, and practical concerns, receipt of care, and trends in these outcomes at the population level.

Results: 89% of respondents reported at least one physical concern (67% received associated posttreatment care), 90% reported at least one emotional concern (47% received care), and 45% reported at least one practical concern (36% received care).

Early adolescent relationship predictors of emerging adult outcomes: youth with and without type 1 diabetes.

Background: Emerging adulthood is a high-risk period for mental health problems and risk behaviors for youth generally and for physical health problems among those with type 1 diabetes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether adolescents' relationships with parents and friends predict health and risk behaviors during emerging adulthood.

Method: Youth with and without diabetes were enrolled at average age 12 and followed for 7 years.

Enhancing cross-system collaboration for caregivers at risk for depression.

In the United States, many health care systems function independently from one another. Increasing coordination across systems has the potential to vastly improve services and patient outcomes, yet implementing these changes can be challenging, requiring increased communication, interaction, and coordination across systems that typically function independently. Parental depression is one health issue that could benefit greatly from a comprehensive systems approach.

Relationships and health among emerging adults with and without Type 1 diabetes.

Objective: The study's goal was to examine the impact of parent and peer relationships on health behaviors and psychological well-being of those with and without Type 1 diabetes over the transition to emerging adulthood. Emerging adulthood is an understudied developmental period and a high-risk period--especially for those with Type 1 diabetes.

Method: Youth with (n = 117) and without Type 1 diabetes (n = 122) completed questionnaires during their senior year of high school and 1 year later.

Emerging adults with type 1 diabetes: a comparison to peers without diabetes.

Objective: This longitudinal study compared emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes on life path decisions, health behaviors, and psychological well-being during the transition out of high school.

Methods: Administered questionnaires during the senior year of high school and 1 year later to 117 emerging adults with diabetes and 122 emerging adults without diabetes. Comparisons were conducted with respect to health status, sex, and school status.

Children with diabetes compared to peers: depressed? Distressed? A meta-analytic review.

Background: It is not clear from the literature whether children with diabetes have more psychological difficulties than their peers.

Purpose: This study aims to use meta-analysis to determine if children with diabetes differ from children without a chronic illness in a variety of domains reflecting psychological well-being.

Method: A meta-analysis was undertaken of 22 studies that compared children with diabetes to a comparison group.

Parent and adolescent distribution of responsibility for diabetes self-care: links to health outcomes.

Objective: To examine the relation of adolescent and parent responsibility distribution for diabetes self-care to psychological and physical health.

Methods: We interviewed children (mean age 12 years) annually for 3 years and asked parents to complete a questionnaire. Both reported how diabetes self-care was distributed in the family.

The role of friendship in the lives of male and female adolescents: does diabetes make a difference?

Purpose: We examined differences in the nature of friendship between adolescents with diabetes and healthy adolescents. We also examined whether friend support and negative relations with friends were related to health for both groups.

Method: We interviewed 127 adolescents with diabetes and 129 healthy adolescents on two occasions, separated by one year.

A meta-analytic review of benefit finding and growth.

The authors conducted a meta-analysis to examine the relations of benefit finding to psychological and physical health as well as to a specific set of demographic, stressor, personality, and coping correlates. Results from 87 cross-sectional studies reported in 77 articles showed that benefit finding was related to less depression and more positive well-being but also more intrusive and avoidant thoughts about the stressor. Benefit finding was unrelated to anxiety, global distress, quality of life, and subjective reports of physical health.

Brief report: friendships of adolescents with and without diabetes.

Background: Friendships of adolescents with chronic illness have been rarely studied.

Objective: To compare the friendships of boys and girls with diabetes with those between healthy adolescents.

Methods: One hundred and thirty-eight adolescents were interviewed at summer camps.