Participant and caregiver perspectives on health feedback from a healthy lifestyle check.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The usual output following health consultations from paediatric services is a clinical letter to the referring professional or primary care provider, with a copy sent to the patient's caregiver. There is little research on how patients and caregivers perceive the letter content. We aimed to: first understand child, young people and caregiver experiences of and preferences for receiving a health feedback letter about the child/young person's health measures within a healthy lifestyle programme; and second to provide a set of recommendations for designing letters to children, young people and their families within a healthy lifestyle programme.

Methods

This qualitative study, informed by Kaupapa Māori principles, included focus groups of children aged 5-11 years a

SUBMITTER: Lee MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10785704 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature