Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Journal of Child Health Care
Publisher
SAGE
School
School of Nursing and Midwifery
RAS ID
69926
Funders
Nurses Memorial Trust Grant / Australian College of Children, Young People’s Nurses Dorothy Clarke Scholarship Grant / Western Australia and the Childhood Cancer Fund in Sweden
Abstract
Determining the child’s best interests in a hospital setting will ideally involve the combined views of children, parents, and healthcare professionals. However, few studies have explored parents’ experiences of their child’s best interests when they engage with the healthcare system. Therefore, this study aimed to explore parents’ experiences of their child’s best interests during hospitalisation. A descriptive qualitative inductive design using face-to-face parent–child combined interviews, analysed by latent content analysis, was used. Sixteen parents recruited from a tertiary hospital in Western Australia were interviewed. Collaboration, development of trustworthy relationships, and effective communication were essential in shaping parents’ experiences of their child’s best interests during hospitalisation.
DOI
10.1177/13674935241243101
Creative Commons License
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Comments
Quaye, A. A., Foster, M., Whitehead, L., & Hallström, I. K. (2024). Parents’ experiences of their child’s best interests during a hospital stay in Australia. Journal of Child Health Care. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13674935241243101