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Some stressors that hospitalized teenagers may experience include the following:
- lack of trust
- loss of independence and control
- threat of change in body image
- restriction of physical activities
- loss of peer acceptance and/or fear of rejection
- threat to bodily competence
- threat to future
- fear of death
- isolation
- limited caregiver involvement
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