PEDIATRICS Vol. 44 No. 6 December 1969, pp. 1009-1011
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Admission to an Adolescent Ward

John E. Schowalter M.D.1 and Ruth D. Lord M.A.2

1 Yale Child Study Center, 333 Cedar Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
2 Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut 06510

Admission reactions of younger children to the hospital are ivell described, but little has been published about experiences on adolescent units.

METHOD In order to determine adolescents' reactions to hospitalization, 200 semi—structured interviews were conducted: 100 with patients on the Ward for Older Children and 100 with their parents. Age is the only criterion for a patient's admission to the ward. Niale as well as female, private as well as non—private, and surgical as well as medical patients are together On the same floor. The median length of stay is 5 days. The 100 patients studied were randomly selected and included 55 girls and 45 boys.