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1Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
Abstract:
Adolescent patients within the acute hospital setting require activities which allow for identity development and interaction with other patients. Adolescent patients in a study performed by Hutton in 1999, discuss what type of activities they would like to do while in hospital and describe the environment in which they would like these activities to take place. There were seven patients in Hutton's study. All of these adolescent patients had chronic medical conditions and had been in and out of hospital for most of their lives. These adolescent patients where able to articulate who they wanted to perform activities with and the reasons for both quiet and noisy activities within a busy ward environment. The use of televisions in the ward environment is also included in this discussion.
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