PETS-D (parents education through simulation-diabetes): Parents' qualitative results.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Parents who have a child newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D) must quickly learn daily diabetes self-management. An RCT was conducted using human patient simulation (HPS) to enhance parents learning diabetes self-management with children with new-onset T1D. The purpose of this study was to describe parents' perspectives of using HPS to augment diabetes education.

Methods

A qualitative descriptive design was used with open-ended in-depth interviews of parents (n=49) post-intervention. Qualitative directed content analysis was used.

Results

The majority of parents were positive about learning with HPS. Although a few parents said the HPS was "hokey" or "creepy," most reported the visual and hands-on learning was realistic and very beneficial. Seeing a se

SUBMITTER: Ramchandani N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4931973 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature