學齡期腦瘤病童住院期間面對壓力之行為表現

兒童腦瘤（pediatric brain tumor）在兒童癌症罹患率中位居第三位，住院對學齡期腦瘤病童而言顯然是必經過程，面臨住院艱辛的過程，是一段辛苦的煎熬，由於陌生、不安、焦慮和害怕，病童變得更難去適應疾病與住院所帶來的壓力及心理創傷，倘若無法經由因應行為來減輕，將對病童造成長期的影響，因此，護理人員要協助病童有效的運用因應行為，提供較多的支持，並且減少孩童必須面對的壓力源，共同渡過及調適整個住院期間的過程。

關鍵字

學齡期；腦瘤；住院壓力；行為表現

並列摘要

Incidence of pediatric brain tumor is the third place in childhood cancer. Hospitalization of school-age children with brain tumors is obviously a necessary process and the patients are always suffering difficult times due to the strange, restless, anxious and their fear to the hospital environments and situations. Children become more difficult to adapt to illness and hospitalization caused by stress and psychological trauma, unless they can cope the behaviors well, or the hospitalization will cause long-term impact of children. Therefore, nurses use to help children effectively coping behaviors, and provide more support and reduce the stress source which the child must face, and adjustment together through entire in hospital period process. The present paper aims to explore the stress-induced behavioral expression in school-age children with brain tumor during hospitalization based on 3 cases study, to discuss the care management of these children.