Parental Concerns about the Health of Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: A Brief Report

Background. Parents of adolescents with intellectual disability are concerned about the future health and well-being needs of their children. Method. Qualitative data was collected as part of a cross-sectional descriptive study and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 parents. The resul...

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Autores principales: Tucker, Madonna, Taylor Gomez, Miriam, Rey-Conde, Therese, Lennox, Nicholas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22295180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/164080
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description Background. Parents of adolescents with intellectual disability are concerned about the future health and well-being needs of their children. Method. Qualitative data was collected as part of a cross-sectional descriptive study and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 parents. The results were themed. Results. Most parents discussed areas of their children's health which made them anxious about the future. These concerns were collated into five themes. Conclusion. The health and well-being themes were dependency, general health, challenging behaviours, and increasing support needs.
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spelling pubmed-32638332012-01-31 Parental Concerns about the Health of Adolescents with Intellectual Disability: A Brief Report Tucker, Madonna Taylor Gomez, Miriam Rey-Conde, Therese Lennox, Nicholas Int J Family Med Research Article Background. Parents of adolescents with intellectual disability are concerned about the future health and well-being needs of their children. Method. Qualitative data was collected as part of a cross-sectional descriptive study and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 parents. The results were themed. Results. Most parents discussed areas of their children's health which made them anxious about the future. These concerns were collated into five themes. Conclusion. The health and well-being themes were dependency, general health, challenging behaviours, and increasing support needs. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3263833/ /pubmed/22295180 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/164080 Text en Copyright © 2011 Madonna Tucker et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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