Cargando…
The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: When children and young people (CYP) are diagnosed with a brain tumour, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is key to the clinical management of this condition. This can produce hundreds, and often thousands, of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were unde...
Autores principales: | , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34507545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08673-z |
_version_ | 1783751048997896192 |
---|---|
author | Tyldesley-Marshall, Natalie Greenfield, Sheila Neilson, Susan J. English, Martin Adamski, Jenny Peet, Andrew |
author_facet | Tyldesley-Marshall, Natalie Greenfield, Sheila Neilson, Susan J. English, Martin Adamski, Jenny Peet, Andrew |
author_sort | Tyldesley-Marshall, Natalie |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: When children and young people (CYP) are diagnosed with a brain tumour, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is key to the clinical management of this condition. This can produce hundreds, and often thousands, of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 14 families (15 parents and 8 patients), and analysed using Grounded Theory. Analysis was supported by the Framework Method. RESULTS: Although the focus of the research was whether paediatric patients and their families find viewing MRIs beneficial, all patients and parents discussed difficult times during the illness and using various strategies to cope. This article explores the identified coping strategies that involved MRIs, and the role that MRIs can play in coping. Coping strategies were classified under the aim of the strategy when used: ‘Normalising’; ‘Maintaining hope and a sense of the future’; ‘Dealing with an uncertain future’; and ‘Seeking Support’. CONCLUSIONS: Coping and finding ways to cope are clearly used by patients and their families and are something that they wish to discuss, as they were raised in conversations that were not necessarily about coping. This suggests clinicians should always allow time and space (in appointments, consultations, or impromptu conversations on the ward) for patient families to discuss ways of coping. MRIs were found to be used in various ways: to maintain or adapt normal; maintain hope and a sense of the future; deal with an uncertain future; and seek support from others. Clinicians should recognise the potential for MRIs to aid coping and if appropriate, suggest that families take copies of scans (MRIs) home. Professional coaches or counsellors may also find MRIs beneficial as a way to remind families that the child is in a more stable or ‘better’ place than they have been previously. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12885-021-08673-z. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8431927 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-84319272021-09-10 The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study Tyldesley-Marshall, Natalie Greenfield, Sheila Neilson, Susan J. English, Martin Adamski, Jenny Peet, Andrew BMC Cancer Research BACKGROUND: When children and young people (CYP) are diagnosed with a brain tumour, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is key to the clinical management of this condition. This can produce hundreds, and often thousands, of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs). METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 14 families (15 parents and 8 patients), and analysed using Grounded Theory. Analysis was supported by the Framework Method. RESULTS: Although the focus of the research was whether paediatric patients and their families find viewing MRIs beneficial, all patients and parents discussed difficult times during the illness and using various strategies to cope. This article explores the identified coping strategies that involved MRIs, and the role that MRIs can play in coping. Coping strategies were classified under the aim of the strategy when used: ‘Normalising’; ‘Maintaining hope and a sense of the future’; ‘Dealing with an uncertain future’; and ‘Seeking Support’. CONCLUSIONS: Coping and finding ways to cope are clearly used by patients and their families and are something that they wish to discuss, as they were raised in conversations that were not necessarily about coping. This suggests clinicians should always allow time and space (in appointments, consultations, or impromptu conversations on the ward) for patient families to discuss ways of coping. MRIs were found to be used in various ways: to maintain or adapt normal; maintain hope and a sense of the future; deal with an uncertain future; and seek support from others. Clinicians should recognise the potential for MRIs to aid coping and if appropriate, suggest that families take copies of scans (MRIs) home. Professional coaches or counsellors may also find MRIs beneficial as a way to remind families that the child is in a more stable or ‘better’ place than they have been previously. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12885-021-08673-z. BioMed Central 2021-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8431927/ /pubmed/34507545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08673-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis 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 Tyldesley-Marshall, Natalie Greenfield, Sheila Neilson, Susan J. English, Martin Adamski, Jenny Peet, Andrew The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title | The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title_full | The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title_fullStr | The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title_short | The role of Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
title_sort | role of magnetic resonance images (mris) in coping for patients with brain tumours and their parents: a qualitative study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8431927/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34507545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12885-021-08673-z |
work_keys_str_mv | AT tyldesleymarshallnatalie theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT greenfieldsheila theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT neilsonsusanj theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT englishmartin theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT adamskijenny theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT peetandrew theroleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT tyldesleymarshallnatalie roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT greenfieldsheila roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT neilsonsusanj roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT englishmartin roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT adamskijenny roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy AT peetandrew roleofmagneticresonanceimagesmrisincopingforpatientswithbraintumoursandtheirparentsaqualitativestudy |