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  • Title: Information-seeking coping and anxiety in school-age children anticipating surgery.
    Author: Thompson ML.
    Journal: Child Health Care; 1994; 23(2):87-97. PubMed ID: 10171872.
    Abstract:
    This study examined the relation between coping behavior and anxiety among school-age children anticipating an elective tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy. The demographic variables of age, gender, previous hospitalization, and birth order were also studied in relation to both coping and anxiety. Interview methods were utilized to measure information-seeking and information-limiting coping behaviors and feelings of anxiety. The results of this study indicate that children who used primarily information-seeking or information-limiting strategies were successful (as measured by low anxiety levels) in managing the stress of anticipated hospitalization. Children using information-seeking strategies for some, but not all, aspects of the hospitalization experience reported the greatest anxiety. The demographic variables were not related to either anxiety or coping.
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