Aim This paper discusses two independently conducted studies and argues that adult healthcare workers researchers need to consider the influence parents can have on a negotiated conversation between child an interviewer. Background Interviewing is common qualitative research method used with children in clinical practice, yet there has been little focus how interviews are conducted. Data sources Qualitative, semi-structured from separate involving young people aged six 13 years interviewed...

This article aims to share critical debate on undertaking interviews with children in the home setting and draws authors’ extensive research fieldwork. The focuses three key processes: planning entry child’s home, conducting exiting field. In entry, we include children’s engagement issues of researcher gender. interviews, consider such as balance power, importance building a rapport, voluntary nature consent need for flexible interview structure. Finally, address from sensitivity at end...

This paper is intended to re-examine Mandell's classic work on the 'least adult' role and show that principles underpin are useful if combined with a reflexive approach working children.Researching children (Christensen James 2008) using participatory methods has become an accepted research methodology. However, reports claim represent views of rarely detail how relationships between adults managed.Mandell's least-adult in studying other contemporary texts researching children.Re-examination...

Objective A proportion of children die, making them potentially eligible to be organ/tissue donors. Not all are approached for donation, and experiences those parents not well understood. The objective was investigate what extent organ tissue donation (OTD) is discussed as part end-of-life care explore parents’ healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) experiences. Design retrospective qualitative study. Setting Multicentre study with participants recruited through two neonatal intensive units...

The preparedness of nurses in relation to providing palliative care is not always adequate, indeed, it sometimes unsatisfactory; this may be caused by lack knowledge and limited experience end-of-life (EOLC). Thus, study purposed assess the levels registered nurses' about EOLC, examine relationships between EOLC some demographic variables, explore predictors knowledge.A cross-sectional design survey was conducted with Jordanian critical units (N = 175) different heath sectors Jordan. End-of...

This paper examined the potential of a new classification framework, The Spectrum Children's Palliative Care Needs, to facilitate identification children with palliative care needs for purposes minimum data set collection and population assessment.Health social professionals (n=50) in range paediatric settings applied (i) clinical vignettes (ii) consecutive on their caseloads. They also provided confidence ratings written comments about experiences. Inter-rater reliability, conceptual...

Children participating in research, like other children, may be being maltreated. There is also potential for exposure to abuse during research. Research training, practices and protocols respond disclosure discovery of protect both researchers children not sufficiently robust. Our aim was compare contrast research reported the literature related protecting recommend safer ways conduct The simultaneous increase with along an increased willingness listen child victims abuse, means that must...

The findings presented in this article were unanticipated and came to light during a study which investigated African African-Caribbean fathers' views about preventive primary care services. This reports indicate that fathers strive enable protect children's mental well-being create social, cultural symbolic forms of capital. It also seeks identify implications for health social policy practice England.There is limited literature examining experiences England. Consequently an exploratory...

Health and education agencies collaborated in a hospital's special school to ask children what made 'good' nurse. Eleven aged between 11 14 years took part described the nurse as having professional persona ability connect with them, delivering timely effective care being respectful of children's dignity. The results are now used an undergraduate nursing curriculum.

A consultation was held to seek children's views on how make better nurses influence a new curriculum. In one-to-one sessions, ten hospitalised children were asked complete body outlines of 'good' and 'not so good' nurses. Based this the about good could be made. They agreed that although are special people with some innate characteristics, they also needed education them at nursing children. The able identify three areas learning help nurse. researchers categorised these as: attitudinal...

In the past decade there has been both an increase in number of children who receive nursing care their communities rather than hospitals, and increasing willingness to listen children. This qualitative study used Clark’s Mosaic approach elicit children’s views community nursing. Twenty-one took part total, with seven making up a core group participated activities for over year. A non-core 14 were observed receiving from six nurses. The had diverse medical conditions, aged 11 months 17 years...

Preferred place of care and death is a widely used quality measure for palliative end life services. In this article we explore the use Zygmunt Bauman's ideas on solid liquid modernity to understand complexity social geographical contexts delivering receiving care. Although ways dying offer certainty standardized care, more allow individualized connected family communities. Understanding complex tensions between aspects may practitioners help people die in places they prefer.

Today more and children are living with complex health care needs, many of these life limiting and/or threatening conditions, some medically fragile. To live a childhood must in communities their families. In most cases this means the child's carers, parents, often mothers, required to undertake great deal care. During project on parental coping I became aware ways which parents were restructuring working lives order meet demands nursing medical needs children. paper relate stories we...

In this article, we explore the ethical issues related to reporting of suspected abuse or neglect in research involving children. Ethical dilemmas child maltreatment are often complex because rights children and their adult caregivers may conflict determinations socially constructed judgments that depend on particular circumstances. We argue when is legally mandated, investigators must follow law report suspicions Child Protective Services. When not still have an obligation help prevent...