ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1996
Parents' difficulties and information needs in coping with acute illness in preschool children: a qualitative study.
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- A systematic review of decision support needs of parents making child health decisions.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2008Pooled it
- The natural history of acute cough in children aged 0 to 4 years in primary care: a systematic review.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2002Pooled it
- Systematic review of the treatment of upper respiratory tract infection.Archives of disease in childhood · 1998Pooled it
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- Converting habits of antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in German primary care--the cluster-randomized controlled CHANGE-2 trial.BMC family practice · 2012Trial
- The effect of using an interactive booklet on childhood respiratory tract infections in consultations: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care.BMC family practice · 2008Trial
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Abstract
objectivesTo identify and explore difficulties parents experience with acute illness in young children and the information they seek to help them.
designQualitative study using semi-structured one t one and group interviews with parents of preschool children.
settingDisadvantaged inner city community. SUBJECTS: 95 parents of preschool children.
resultsParents felt disempowered when dealing with acute illness in their children because of difficulties making sense of the illness. Central to parents' difficulties were their experiences of inadequate information sharing by their general practitioners and variations in their doctors' decisions and behaviour. Disparity between parents' beliefs and expectations about illness and treatment and professionals' behaviour further frustrated parents' attempts to understand illness. Parents expressed a need for a range of accessible and specific information to support them through their negotiation of children's illness.
conclusionsCommunication with parents requires greater recognition of parents' difficulties. Professionals have considerable potential to empower parents by sharing more information and skills. Such information should be consistent and address parents' concerns, beliefs, and expressed needs if this potential is to be realised.
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