Psychosocial research and the hospitalized adolescent: approaches and challenges
Denholm, C.J.; Joschko, M.
Adolescence 23(92): 925-937
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-8449 PMID: 3068963 Document Number: 323015
Hospitalized adolescents regularly become participants in psychosocial research within acute-care hospital settings. Examples of studies within the four common approaches used to examine and describe the behaviors of this group (instructional, theoretical, informational, experimental) are briefly described. The impact of various illness states (acute, chronic, terminal) and the readiness of the adolescent to be involved in such research are also discussed. The measurement of adolescent behavior and appropriate instrumentation are presented as areas of challenge for future psychosocial research.