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Table 7 Impacts of health service delivery and care on parents

From: Hospital healthcare experiences of children and young people with life-threatening or life-shortening conditions, and their parents: scoping reviews and resultant conceptual frameworks

 

Impact on parents

Domain of health service delivery & care

Emotional wellbeing

Ability to parent child in way they want

Trust in staff

Care burden

Empowerment & control

Understanding of situation being faced

Partnership (versus conflict) with staff

Maintenance of usual family routine

At ease with (versus regretting) treatment & care decisions

Satisfaction with treatment & care

Sense of hope

Physical wellbeing

STAFF ACTIONS

Sharing medical information & decision making

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

 

✓

✓

✓

 

Management of child’s condition

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

    

Supporting coping

✓

✓

✓

   

✓

  

✓

✓

 

Supporting parenting during inpatient stays

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

  

✓

✓

   

ORGANISATIONAL FEATURES

Physical environment during inpatient stays

✓

✓

     

✓

   

✓

Continuity & coordination of care

✓

✓

✓

✓

        

Access to additional support

✓

✓

 

✓