Parents' experiences of their child's admission to paediatric intensive care
Parents' experiences of their child's admission to paediatric intensive care
Background: Admission of a child to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be one of the most stressful events for parents because the outcome is often uncertain. So how do parents cope, and how can we as nurses help them?
Aim: To explore the lived experiences of parents whose children have been admitted to a PICU.
Methods: Using Heidegger's school of interpretative phenomenology, six unstructured interviews were conducted. These were transcribed and analysed following interpretative phenomenological analysis. Participants were chosen through purposive sampling.
Findings: Each participant had different emergent themes. Themes included trauma, responsibility, anxiety about where the child is, post-traumatic stress symptoms and transfer to the ward.
Conclusion: The lived experience of a parent is fraught with varying different emotions, with the beginning of the journey and the ending of the PICU admission causing the most anxiety.
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Oxley, Ruth
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May 2015
Oxley, Ruth
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Oxley, Ruth
(2015)
Parents' experiences of their child's admission to paediatric intensive care.
Nursing Children and Young People, 27 (4), .
(doi:10.7748/ncyp.27.4.16.e564).
Abstract
Background: Admission of a child to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be one of the most stressful events for parents because the outcome is often uncertain. So how do parents cope, and how can we as nurses help them?
Aim: To explore the lived experiences of parents whose children have been admitted to a PICU.
Methods: Using Heidegger's school of interpretative phenomenology, six unstructured interviews were conducted. These were transcribed and analysed following interpretative phenomenological analysis. Participants were chosen through purposive sampling.
Findings: Each participant had different emergent themes. Themes included trauma, responsibility, anxiety about where the child is, post-traumatic stress symptoms and transfer to the ward.
Conclusion: The lived experience of a parent is fraught with varying different emotions, with the beginning of the journey and the ending of the PICU admission causing the most anxiety.
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Accepted/In Press date: 4 December 2014
Published date: May 2015
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Local EPrints ID: 479271
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/479271
ISSN: 2046-2336
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