Efforts to support children at home with parents through hospitalization

Abstract

  The promotion of child home support is an issue to be addressed for pediatric care in Japan. By setting the hospitalization period from one to two weeks and repeating the hospitalization at intervals of approximately one to three months, according to the wishes of the family, child home support progresses in stages with parents coordinating hospitalization with special function hospitals. The results of the parent questionnaire, which we administered, showed that parents were satisfied with the center’s policy.