- Title
- Parents' perspectives of health-care delivery to their chronically ill children during school
- Creator
- Notaras, Elizabeth; Keatinge, Diana; Smith, James; Cordwell, Judith; Cotterell, Dianne; Nunn, Elizabeth
- Relation
- International Journal of Nursing Practice Vol. 8, Issue 6, p. 297-304
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-172X.2002.00383.x
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- This study sought to identify parents' perspectives about issues relating to the provision of health care to their chronically ill children while they are at school. A survey of parents with school-aged children attending the paediatric subspecialty outpatients clinic in a large teaching hospital was designed to collect both qualitative and quantitative data about this topic. Findings included that 48% (n =161) of parents participating in the study said their child required some form of care or attention while at school. Highest scoring areas of need included supervision of meals (36%), administering insulin (19%), and administering nebulizers/puffers (19%). In addition, 75% of parents with children requiring health care while in school said that special knowledge and skill was required to deliver this care; 56% of these parents did not feel that teachers had the knowledge that would enable them too look after their chronically ill child during school hours.
- Subject
- chronically ill children; parents; school health
- Identifier
- uon:1451
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27192
- Identifier
- ISSN:1322-7114
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