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Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study

BACKGROUND: In 2010, changes were made to the Norwegian Health Personnel Act. This led to all health personnel being obliged to support the patients’ children and families. The aims of this study were to investigate whether health personnel contacted or referred the patients’ children to family/frie...

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Autores principales: Stavnes, Kristin, Ruud, Torleif, Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė, Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil, Solantaus, Tytti, Hilsen, Marit, Skogøy, Bjørg Eva, Kallander, Ellen Katrine, Kufås, Elin, Weimand, Bente M.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37330496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09607-0
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author Stavnes, Kristin
Ruud, Torleif
Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė
Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil
Solantaus, Tytti
Hilsen, Marit
Skogøy, Bjørg Eva
Kallander, Ellen Katrine
Kufås, Elin
Weimand, Bente M.
author_facet Stavnes, Kristin
Ruud, Torleif
Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė
Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil
Solantaus, Tytti
Hilsen, Marit
Skogøy, Bjørg Eva
Kallander, Ellen Katrine
Kufås, Elin
Weimand, Bente M.
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description BACKGROUND: In 2010, changes were made to the Norwegian Health Personnel Act. This led to all health personnel being obliged to support the patients’ children and families. The aims of this study were to investigate whether health personnel contacted or referred the patients’ children to family/friends or public services. We also investigated if there were factors in the family or the services that increased or decreased the degree of contacts and referrals. In addition the patients were asked whether the law had been a help or even a burden. This study was part of a larger multi-site study of children of ill parents conducted in five health trusts in Norway. METHOD: We used cross-sectional data from 518 patients and 278 health personnel. The informants completed a questionnaire addressing the law. Data were analyzed by factor analysis and logistic regression. RESULTS: The health personnel contacted/referred children to different services, but not to the degree desired by their parents. Only a few contacted family/friends, or the school and/or the public health nurse, those representing the helpers who live closest to the child, and thus well situated to participate in help and preventive efforts. The service most often referred to was the child welfare service. CONCLUSION: The results indicate a change in contacts/referrals for children from their parents’ health personnel but also reveal remaining needs for support/help for these children. Health personnel should strive to write more referrals and take more contacts than the current study suggests, to secure adequate support for children of ill parents in Norway, as intended in The Health Personnel Act.
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spelling pubmed-102769062023-06-19 Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study Stavnes, Kristin Ruud, Torleif Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil Solantaus, Tytti Hilsen, Marit Skogøy, Bjørg Eva Kallander, Ellen Katrine Kufås, Elin Weimand, Bente M. BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: In 2010, changes were made to the Norwegian Health Personnel Act. This led to all health personnel being obliged to support the patients’ children and families. The aims of this study were to investigate whether health personnel contacted or referred the patients’ children to family/friends or public services. We also investigated if there were factors in the family or the services that increased or decreased the degree of contacts and referrals. In addition the patients were asked whether the law had been a help or even a burden. This study was part of a larger multi-site study of children of ill parents conducted in five health trusts in Norway. METHOD: We used cross-sectional data from 518 patients and 278 health personnel. The informants completed a questionnaire addressing the law. Data were analyzed by factor analysis and logistic regression. RESULTS: The health personnel contacted/referred children to different services, but not to the degree desired by their parents. Only a few contacted family/friends, or the school and/or the public health nurse, those representing the helpers who live closest to the child, and thus well situated to participate in help and preventive efforts. The service most often referred to was the child welfare service. CONCLUSION: The results indicate a change in contacts/referrals for children from their parents’ health personnel but also reveal remaining needs for support/help for these children. Health personnel should strive to write more referrals and take more contacts than the current study suggests, to secure adequate support for children of ill parents in Norway, as intended in The Health Personnel Act. BioMed Central 2023-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10276906/ /pubmed/37330496 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09607-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Research
Stavnes, Kristin
Ruud, Torleif
Benth, Jūratė Šaltytė
Hanssen-Bauer, Ketil
Solantaus, Tytti
Hilsen, Marit
Skogøy, Bjørg Eva
Kallander, Ellen Katrine
Kufås, Elin
Weimand, Bente M.
Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title_full Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title_fullStr Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title_full_unstemmed Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title_short Norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
title_sort norwegian health personnel’s contacts and referrals for children of ill parents: an exploratory cross-sectional multi-centre study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10276906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37330496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09607-0
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