Keywords
Hospitalization
Domestic Relations
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Abstract
This study assessed the perception of family support and mental health in mothers of children hospitalized in the Pediatric ICU (PICUs) through four measures, and two during the hospitalization, one after the high-sector and another one months of hospital discharge. Participated 14 mothers of children hospitalized in PICUs a hospital-school state of Brazil. The instruments used were: roadmap for identification, Inventory Perception of Family Support (IPSF) and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The results suggested significant variation in the mental health of mothers in the four moments, observing improvement to the hospital. Support family did not vary in the measures; therefore no correlation was found between mental health and family supportThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.