Parental involvement in decision-making about their child's health care at the hospital
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2567509Utgivelsesdato
2018-07Metadata
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Originalversjon
Aarthun, A. (2018) Parental involvement in decision-making about their child's health care at the hospital. Nursing Open, 10.1002/nop2.180 10.1002/nop2.180Sammendrag
Aim
To explore parents' experiences on parental involvement in decision‐making about their child's health care at the hospital and to identify how health professionals can improve parental involvement.
Design
An explorative descriptive qualitative study within a constructivist research paradigm.
Methods
Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 12 parents. Qualitative content analysis was performed.
Results
This study gives unique insight into how parental involvement in children's healthcare decisions influence parents' ability to cope with the parental role at the hospital. The results showed that parents' competence and perceived influence and control over their child's health care appeared to affect how they mastered their role of involvement in decision‐making. Individually tailored and respectful facilitation of parental involvement in these decisions by health professionals seemed to improve parents' influence, control and ability to cope with the parental role. Nurses should thus strengthen parents' sense of coherence enhancing the quality of health care.