Parenting in Childhood Life-Threatening Illness: A Mixed-Methods Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parenting children with life-threatening illness (LTI) and their healthy siblings requires parents to consider their various needs.

Objective and methods

We conducted a concurrent, cross-sectional mixed-methods study to describe challenges parents face prioritizing tasks and goals for each child with qualitative data, compare parents' tasks and goals for children with LTI and healthy siblings with quantitative data, and describe parenting in terms of the process of prioritizing tasks and goals for all children in the family.

Results

Participants included 31 parents of children with LTI who have healthy siblings and were admitted to a children's hospital. Qualitative interviews revealed how parents managed children's needs and their perceptions of the toll i

SUBMITTER: Mooney-Doyle K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797322 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature