How do children and adolescents experience healthcare professionals? Scoping review and interpretive synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Explore children's and adolescents' (CADs') lived experiences of healthcare professionals (HCPs).

Design

Scoping review methodology provided a six-step framework to, first, identify and organise existing evidence. Interpretive phenomenology provided methodological principles for, second, an interpretive synthesis of the life worlds of CADs receiving healthcare, as represented by verbatim accounts of their experiences.

Data sources

Five key databases (Ovid Medline, Embase, Scopus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus, and Web of Science), from inception through to January 2019, reference lists, and opportunistically identified publications.

Eligibility criteria

Research articles containing direct first-person quotation

SUBMITTER: Davison G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8273482 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature