Hospitalisation often remains stressful for adolescents. Therefore the improve ment of life conditions and management of poorly adolescents during their hospit al stay grows into an important concern in the medical st...Hospitalisation often remains stressful for adolescents. Therefore the improve ment of life conditions and management of poorly adolescents during their hospit al stay grows into an important concern in the medical staff. However, there is a lack of standardized instruments for an objective and reproducible assessment of problems related to this subject. The Hospital Stress Rating Scale (HSRS), va lidated in hospitalized adult patients, seems to be an interesting tool allowing an assessment of the level of stress and to specify the stressful factors. Subj ects and methods. -During ten months, 107 adolescent inpatients, 39 males and 6 8 females, aged on average 13.5 ±1.5:years, were included in the study. In addi tion to the HSRS, in a version adapted for adolescents, two other self-report q uestionnaires were used: the Toulouse Stress Rating Scale (TSRS), which is a rat ing scale validated to assess the level of stress and to identify the clinical m anifestations of stress in adolescents, and the Toulouse Coping Rating Scale (TC RS), which is a rating scale validated to assess the coping style of adolescents in stressful situations. The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of t he studied subjectswere collected by a standardized questionnaire. Results. -A significant correlation was found between the HSRS mean total score and the TSRS mean total score. The HSRS item by item analysis showed that the nature of the stressors varied according to the clinical characteristics of the subjects. Last ly, the coping style was found having a significant influence on the level of st ress reported by the subjects. Conclusion. -Even if they were obtained in a rel atively small sample, these results show that the HSRS is a useful tool to asses s the stress reported by the hospitalized adolescents. Such an instrument may be useful to plan aid and preventive strategies and to assess their impact in hosp italized adolescents.展开更多
文摘Hospitalisation often remains stressful for adolescents. Therefore the improve ment of life conditions and management of poorly adolescents during their hospit al stay grows into an important concern in the medical staff. However, there is a lack of standardized instruments for an objective and reproducible assessment of problems related to this subject. The Hospital Stress Rating Scale (HSRS), va lidated in hospitalized adult patients, seems to be an interesting tool allowing an assessment of the level of stress and to specify the stressful factors. Subj ects and methods. -During ten months, 107 adolescent inpatients, 39 males and 6 8 females, aged on average 13.5 ±1.5:years, were included in the study. In addi tion to the HSRS, in a version adapted for adolescents, two other self-report q uestionnaires were used: the Toulouse Stress Rating Scale (TSRS), which is a rat ing scale validated to assess the level of stress and to identify the clinical m anifestations of stress in adolescents, and the Toulouse Coping Rating Scale (TC RS), which is a rating scale validated to assess the coping style of adolescents in stressful situations. The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of t he studied subjectswere collected by a standardized questionnaire. Results. -A significant correlation was found between the HSRS mean total score and the TSRS mean total score. The HSRS item by item analysis showed that the nature of the stressors varied according to the clinical characteristics of the subjects. Last ly, the coping style was found having a significant influence on the level of st ress reported by the subjects. Conclusion. -Even if they were obtained in a rel atively small sample, these results show that the HSRS is a useful tool to asses s the stress reported by the hospitalized adolescents. Such an instrument may be useful to plan aid and preventive strategies and to assess their impact in hosp italized adolescents.
