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Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk, Coping with Unplanned Childhood Hospitalization: The Mediating Functions of Parental Beliefs , Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Volume 20, Issue 3, June 1995, Pages 299–312, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/20.3.299
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Abstract
Examined the processes by which two types of informational interventions (child behavioral information and parental role information) exerted effects on the coping outcomes of 108 mothers whose young children experienced unplanned hospitalization. Driven by a strong theoretical framework comprising self-regulation theory and control theory, this study's findings revealed that the effects of the experimental interventions were mediated by parental beliefs about their children's likely behavioral changes and their parental role during hospitalization. Thus, progress was made in beginning to understand how informational interventions actually enhance parent coping with childhood hospitalization.