- Title
- Parents’ Decision Making During Their Child’s Asthma Attack: Qualitative Systematic Review
- Creator
- Goddard, Bernadette M. M.; Hutton, Alison; Guilhermino, Michelle; McDonald, Vanessa M.
- Relation
- Journal of Asthma and Allergy Vol. 15, Issue 3 July 2022, p. 1021-1033
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/jaa.s341434
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Objective: To conduct a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative evidence exploring the factors that influence a parent’s decision to seek medical assistance while their child is having an asthma attack. Methods: Studies were included if they used qualitative methodologies and explored parent or carers’ experience of caring for a child (2 to 12 years) during an acute asthma attack at home or in the community. We searched MEDLINE (OVID interface, 1948 onwards), EMBASE (OVID interface, 1980 onwards) and CINAHL (EBSCO) electronic databases. Quality appraisal was assessed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Program CASP for qualitative research, and the qualitative studies in this review were analyzed by thematic synthesis. Results: From 4798 identified studies, 17 met the inclusion criteria. Synthesis revealed two distinct processes used by parents to aid their decision to seek medical intervention for their child. The first, past experiences informing future decisions and secondly facilitators that drive parents’ to actively pursue medical help. Conclusion: This review highlights the importance of providing asthma education that not only focuses on the provision of information on symptoms, triggers, medication, and device use but asthma education that targets parents’ unique experience. Using a family strength approach education can impact parents’ future behavior when deciding to seek medical assistance for their child when experiencing an asthma attack. There was not a specific funding source, which supported this review. This review was registered with PROSPERO Identification Number CRD4201912740.
- Subject
- childhood wheeze; caregiver; choice behavior; medical help; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1454083
- Identifier
- uon:44829
- Identifier
- ISSN:1178-6965
- Rights
- © 2022 Goddard et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing thework you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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- eng
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