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Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study
BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis is an acute lower respiratory infection, with significant impacts on children and families and strains on the health care system. Understanding parents’ experiences and information needs caring for a child with bronchiolitis is crucial to highlight misconceptions or issues...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33457588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373520924526 |
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author | Campbell, Alyson Hartling, Lisa Louie-Poon, Samantha Scott, Shannon D |
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description | BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis is an acute lower respiratory infection, with significant impacts on children and families and strains on the health care system. Understanding parents’ experiences and information needs caring for a child with bronchiolitis is crucial to highlight misconceptions or issues contributing to the high burden. The objective of this qualitative study was to describe parents’ experiences caring for a child with bronchiolitis. METHODS: Qualitative description guided this study. Participants were recruited from the Stollery Children’s Hospital emergency department (ED), a specialized pediatric ED in a major Canadian urban center. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 parents. RESULTS: Five major themes were identified: (a) their children’s symptoms and behaviors, (b) bronchiolitis affects the entire family, (c) factors influencing parent’s decision to go to ED, (d) ED experience for parents and their children, and (e) bronchiolitis treatment and management. Interviews revealed bronchiolitis has significant effects on both children and families and parents are generally unaware of bronchiolitis symptoms, treatment, and management. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights that parents have knowledge deficits when it comes to recognizing the presence and severity of bronchiolitis symptoms. Parents would benefit from having more evidence-based resources to enhance their knowledge about the nature of bronchiolitis. |
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spelling | pubmed-77867862021-01-14 Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study Campbell, Alyson Hartling, Lisa Louie-Poon, Samantha Scott, Shannon D J Patient Exp Research Articles BACKGROUND: Bronchiolitis is an acute lower respiratory infection, with significant impacts on children and families and strains on the health care system. Understanding parents’ experiences and information needs caring for a child with bronchiolitis is crucial to highlight misconceptions or issues contributing to the high burden. The objective of this qualitative study was to describe parents’ experiences caring for a child with bronchiolitis. METHODS: Qualitative description guided this study. Participants were recruited from the Stollery Children’s Hospital emergency department (ED), a specialized pediatric ED in a major Canadian urban center. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 parents. RESULTS: Five major themes were identified: (a) their children’s symptoms and behaviors, (b) bronchiolitis affects the entire family, (c) factors influencing parent’s decision to go to ED, (d) ED experience for parents and their children, and (e) bronchiolitis treatment and management. Interviews revealed bronchiolitis has significant effects on both children and families and parents are generally unaware of bronchiolitis symptoms, treatment, and management. CONCLUSIONS: Our study highlights that parents have knowledge deficits when it comes to recognizing the presence and severity of bronchiolitis symptoms. Parents would benefit from having more evidence-based resources to enhance their knowledge about the nature of bronchiolitis. SAGE Publications 2020-07-07 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7786786/ /pubmed/33457588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373520924526 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Campbell, Alyson Hartling, Lisa Louie-Poon, Samantha Scott, Shannon D Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title | Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Parent Experiences Caring for a Child With Bronchiolitis: A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | parent experiences caring for a child with bronchiolitis: a qualitative study |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7786786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33457588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2374373520924526 |
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