Survey of Chronically Ill Children's Use of Time Out-of-School

摘要

The primary aim of the study was to describe and analyze the everyday out-of-school life experiences of chronically ill school-age children, and to examine the effects of different ecological contexts on the child's out-of-school life. Two hypothesis were tested: (1) The patterns of chronically ill children's time use depends on the extent to and the manner in which parents and others engage in joint activities with them; and (2) the capacity of the parents to engage in such joint behavior depends on the extent to which there exist external support systems that provide opportunity, assistance, resources, and channels of communication.