Well, its my summer holiday project for behavioral science in 1st Med year at RCSI(Dublin). We are looking into matters such as
-the attachment (to parents); long term hospitalization may lead to detachment of children to their mother, which may lead to future problems,
-stress coping (both to the children and to their parents and family)
-cognitive developments (Impacts of social handicap, fear, ignorance, isolation, depression ... etc)
-how children describe their sickness; children oriented communication ( eg, Piaget's theory of contagion, contaminaton and internalisaton at differnet stages "sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational" of intellectual developments)
-common causes for children to go to hospital ( since the rate for children catching infectious diseases are dropping thanks to better sanitation, advances in immunization, fertility control...etc, most children are there for chronic illness eg Ashma and accidents or new problems)
-impact to future behaviroural and attitude that influences their health, to both children and their adults ( since a lot of health-risking manner are developed or triggered by people's experiences while they are young or at trauma)
-cross culture examination, what are most important in different cultures
-diet; obesity, anorexia Nervosa, Bulima Nervosa ... etc developments and causes.
and I am looking into them more from psychological perspective.
I been looking around on the net, but mostly I found incomplete and repetitive simple business-type/hollywood type advertisements.