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SynthesisHealth expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy2008

A systematic review of decision support needs of parents making child health decisions.

Cath Jackson, Francine M Cheater, Innes Reid

Abstract readSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  5. Parental Decision-Making and Deaf Children: A Systematic Literature Review.Journal of deaf studies and deaf education · 2018
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  6. Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2018
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  9. The psychological impact of genetic information on children: a systematic review.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Cath JacksonSchool of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. c.j.jackson@leeds.ac.uk
Francine M Cheater
Innes Reid

Funding

Department of Health PHI/03/C1/052
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo identify the decision support needs of parents attempting to make an informed health decision on behalf of a child. CONTEXT: The first step towards implementing patient decision support is to assess patients' information and decision-making needs. SEARCH STRATEGY: A systematic search of key bibliographic databases for decision support studies was performed in 2005. Reference lists of relevant review articles and key authors were searched. Three relevant journals were hand searched. INCLUSION CRITERIA: Non-intervention studies containing data on decision support needs of parents making child health decisions. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Data were extracted on study characteristics, decision focus and decision support needs. Studies were quality assessed using a pre-defined set of criteria. Data synthesis used the UK Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre approach. MAIN

resultsOne-hundred and forty nine studies were included across various child health decisions, settings and study designs. Thematic analysis of decision support needs indicated three key issues: (i) information (including suggestions about the content, delivery, source, timing); (ii) talking to others (including concerns about pressure from others); and (iii) feeling a sense of control over the process that could be influenced by emotionally charged decisions, the consultation process, and structural or service barriers. These were consistent across decision type, study design and whether or not the study focused on informed decision making.

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Child WelfareDecision MakingDecision Support TechniquesNeeds AssessmentParental ConsentChildChild, PreschoolHumansParentsPatient Education as Topic

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PMID18816320
PMCPMC5060453

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