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Research Proposal :

Research Proposal :. Domenique Dellilo. Research Question:. In what ways does a young child undergoing vital surgery affect their family psychologically? I am curious about this topic because I want to be a doctor and would like to know about the mental effects.

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Research Proposal :

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  1. ResearchProposal: Domenique Dellilo

  2. Research Question: • In what ways does a young child undergoing vital surgery affect their family psychologically? • I am curious about this topic because I want to be a doctor and would like to know about the mental effects. • I first took interest in this topic after relating part of my major to a real life experience from when my brother had open heart surgery. • The overall goal is to find out how these surgeries impact families mentally, and how it could potentially effect the healing process of the child. • I care because this will provide me with insight on how to deal with my future profession.

  3. Hypotheses: • I think that it causes the family to have an increase of stress and anxiety, which could also lead to the patient being uneasy and scared to undergo the surgery. • How can this increase of stress affect the healing process of the patient? • How can it potentially affect the patients response to medications? • How can knowledge of the procedure prior to the surgery decrease stress? • How does anxiety of the family affect the patient mentally?

  4. Critical Sources: • S. Scrimin, M. Haynes, G. Altoè, M. H. Bornstein, G. Axia. National Institutes of Health, Anxiety and stress in mothers and fathers in the 24 h after their child’s surgery. March 2009. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496245/pdf/nihms405409.pdf. Accessed February 4, 2013. • Alice Bayne, Patricia Kirkland. Prepare children for surgery one stage at a time. September 2008. http://www.nursingcenter.com/pdf.asp?AID=822766 Accessed February 4, 2013. • Jo Wray, Kirsty Lee, Nettie Dearmun, Linda Franck. Journal of Child Health Care, Parental Anxiety and Stress During Children’s Hospitalization. September 14, 2011. http://chc.sagepub.com/content/15/3/163.full.pdf+html Accessed February 11, 2013.

  5. Critical Sources: • What has already been done? • I have found research on the fact that a child undergoing surgery does lead to increased anxiety and stress within the family. However I have not found many other mental causes. • What do I wish to contribute? • I want to discover other emotions and effects that these surgeries have on families. I feel that there are many other strains that they experience.

  6. Methods: • I will interview my family members as my primary sources and document how my brothers surgery affected them mentally at the time. • Next, I will survey doctors at random and ask how their patients and families are affected by the child undergoing surgery.

  7. Where could it be submitted? • 3 Conferences: • The National Conference in Pediatric Psychology. http://www.continuinged.ku.edu/programs/pediatric-psychology/ • American Pediatric Surgical Association. http://www.eapsa.org/Annual_Meeting_Home.htm • European Pediatrics Surgeons Association. http://www.eupsa.org/ • 3 Journals: • Jama Pediatrics. • http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx • The Journal of Pediatrics. • http://www.jpeds.com/ • Journal Watch. • http://pediatrics.jwatch.org/

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