Thematic analysis of spousal interaction patterns among Asian parents of children with chronic life-threatening illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This is the first known study which examines the evolutionary nature of spousal interaction patterns among Asian parents of children with chronic life-threatening illness, from the time of providing care to their child through bereavement. This study is informed by earlier findings that when a child is diagnosed with a chronic life-threatening illness, parents are faced with multiple stressors, leaving them with little time to invest in their spousal relationship.

Participants and setting

A constructivist-phenomenological research paradigm was adopted and meaning-oriented interviews were conducted with 20 parental units (i.e., 6 couples, 12 lone mothers and 2 lone fathers) of Chinese, Malay and Indian ethnicities who lost their child to chronic life-threatening ill

SUBMITTER: Ho AHY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6887006 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature