Accessing mental health services for a child living with anxiety: Parents' lived experience and recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little research attention has been given to understanding the lived experience of parents who access mental health services in the context of child anxiety disorders. This paper reports on findings specific to parents' lived experience of accessing services for their child living with anxiety and the recommendations they provided for improving access.

Methods

We used the qualitative research approach of hermeneutic phenomenology. The sample included 54 Canadian parents of youth living with an anxiety disorder. Parents took part in one semi-structured and one open-ended interview. We used a 4 staged data analysis process informed by van Manen's approach and Levesque and colleagues' framework of access to healthcare.

Results

The majority of parents reported b

SUBMITTER: Woodgate RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075395 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature