Parental Compliance With Postdischarge Recommendations for Retarded Children
Abstract
Parental compliance with postdischarge recommendations was accepted as the criterion for successful intervention in a study conducted on a short-term inpatient ward for retarded children. Parents' attitudes toward the diagnosis and hospitalization and the extent to which they had followed the recommendations were assessed in telephone interviews at least three months after the child war discharged. Study of 217 recommendations to 80 families indicated three variables that were significantly correlated with compliance: agreement with the diagnosis, postdischarge contact with the ward, and preadmission stresses of caring for the child. The authors discuss the findings and their implications.
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