Abstract:The aim of the study was to describe the experiences of communication in the caring process for children aged 7-13 years when they receive nitrous oxide during needle-related examinations and treatments. The study was of a qualitative nature and has been viewed through the lens of qualitative content analysis. Seventeen children aged 7-13 years participated, and visual and textual information was used to prepare each child. The categories described the following important activities for communication: The chil… Show more
“…Parents expressed that they felt calm when healthcare professionals were comforting them, and this could possibly have contributed to the overall positive experience of communicating with healthcare professionals. Similar findings were made in another Swedish study about experiences of communication with pictorial support among children aged 7 to 13 (Benjaminsson & Nilsson, 2016 ). Even though the study was based on Swedish-speaking children, the similarities regarding feeling a sense of encouragement, trust and confidence were striking, consistent with the adult non-Swedish-speaking parents in this study.…”
Section: Main Interpretation and Discussionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…In both studies, the participants thought that it was reassuring when healthcare professionals were saying that all would be well and that they shouldn’t worry about the medical procedures. The information that was given to participants in the study conducted by Benjaminsson and Nilsson ( 2016 ) helped the children to calm down (a.a). Parents in the current study explained situations where they had different stressful perceptions about their child’s condition.…”
Section: Main Interpretation and Discussionmentioning
Purpose
Families arriving in Sweden after being forced to flee their home need health care. Communication is a key component to establishing good care relations and becomes difficult when there are language barriers between families and healthcare professionals. In the context of neonatal care, communication is carried out with parents. The aim of the study was to describe parents’ experiences of communication with neonatal healthcare professionals and using pictorial support when language barriers exist.
Method
The study takes a qualitative approach based on seventeen interviews with parents who had experienced neonatal ward. Qualitative content analysis was used.
Results
The parents needed to communicate through supports, which caused distress and misunderstanding. The relationship between parents and the healthcare professionals affected the communication. Pictorial support was used to different degrees. Four categories were identified from the data analysis: Communicating through supports, Facing barriers in communication, Facing external influences and The need for a good healthcare relationship.
Conclusion
The present study is the first to describe parents’ experience with using the pictorial support developed in the project KomHIT Refugee and therefore fulfils the function of being a first evaluation of the pictures from parents’ perspective.
“…Parents expressed that they felt calm when healthcare professionals were comforting them, and this could possibly have contributed to the overall positive experience of communicating with healthcare professionals. Similar findings were made in another Swedish study about experiences of communication with pictorial support among children aged 7 to 13 (Benjaminsson & Nilsson, 2016 ). Even though the study was based on Swedish-speaking children, the similarities regarding feeling a sense of encouragement, trust and confidence were striking, consistent with the adult non-Swedish-speaking parents in this study.…”
Section: Main Interpretation and Discussionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…In both studies, the participants thought that it was reassuring when healthcare professionals were saying that all would be well and that they shouldn’t worry about the medical procedures. The information that was given to participants in the study conducted by Benjaminsson and Nilsson ( 2016 ) helped the children to calm down (a.a). Parents in the current study explained situations where they had different stressful perceptions about their child’s condition.…”
Section: Main Interpretation and Discussionmentioning
Purpose
Families arriving in Sweden after being forced to flee their home need health care. Communication is a key component to establishing good care relations and becomes difficult when there are language barriers between families and healthcare professionals. In the context of neonatal care, communication is carried out with parents. The aim of the study was to describe parents’ experiences of communication with neonatal healthcare professionals and using pictorial support when language barriers exist.
Method
The study takes a qualitative approach based on seventeen interviews with parents who had experienced neonatal ward. Qualitative content analysis was used.
Results
The parents needed to communicate through supports, which caused distress and misunderstanding. The relationship between parents and the healthcare professionals affected the communication. Pictorial support was used to different degrees. Four categories were identified from the data analysis: Communicating through supports, Facing barriers in communication, Facing external influences and The need for a good healthcare relationship.
Conclusion
The present study is the first to describe parents’ experience with using the pictorial support developed in the project KomHIT Refugee and therefore fulfils the function of being a first evaluation of the pictures from parents’ perspective.
“…The interviews clearly showed that this was the case, and that healthcare practitioners, parents and children experienced that the children's participation increased – both before, during and after the hospital visit. Some children found that the pictorial support made it easier for them to talk about the hospital visit when they were at home (Vaanta Benjaminsson & Nilsson, 2017). One child suggested that it facilitated conversations with practitioners during the hospital visit (Beijer, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Principle 3 refers to a design being easy to understand, regardless of the person's experience, knowledge, language skills or current concentration level (Table 1). Children, parents and healthcare practitioners all described the invitation letters with pictures and step‐by‐step easy‐to‐read texts as clear and easy to follow (Beijer, 2016; Lindbladh & Schönberg, 2019; Vaanta‐Benjaminsson & Nilsson, 2017). … when you do not have complete control yourself as a parent, it also becomes more difficult to guide your child and make it feel safe.…”
type of care implies effective communication from and by both the patient and the healthcare practitioner. This is often problematic in the case of the paediatric popula principle of universal design put forth in conventions and legislation means that the three different paediatric care settings where pictorial supports were applied uni is supported in paediatric care.
“…For these reasons, the use of patients’ self-reporting instruments is valuable to the paediatric nurse. Children aged 7–12 years reported in a study that they appreciated when the paediatric nurses assessed their emotions (Vantaa Benjaminsson and Nilsson, 2017).…”
The aim of this study was to determine the concurrent and content validity, sensitivity and inter-rater reliability of the Faces Emotional Coping Scale (FECS) to evaluate the children's anticipation of the level of emotional coping in conjunction with a venepuncture. A total of 153 children with type 1 diabetes and 86 of their parents participated in the study. The age of the children, 76 of whom were boys, ranged from 7 to 18 years. The child and his or her parent reported the child's coping ability, and the child reported the pain intensity and unpleasantness of a venepuncture. The child also wrote a short narrative about his or her experience of the needle procedure. The FECS correlated negatively with the Coloured Analogue Scale and the Facial Affective Scale and positively with the FECS by proxy. The narratives of 90 children correlated negatively with the FECS. Younger children reported significantly lower scores than older children did regarding their ability to cope with a venepuncture. The children's scores on the FECS showed good agreement with the parents' scores. In this study, the FECS was deemed valid for measuring children's ability to cope with their emotions when undergoing needle-related procedures like venepuncture.
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