Protecting my injured child: a qualitative study of parents' experience of caring for a child with a displaced distal radius fracture.
Childhood fractures
Decision-making
Interviews
Qualitative research
Randomised controlled trial
Journal
BMC pediatrics
ISSN: 1471-2431
Titre abrégé: BMC Pediatr
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100967804
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 05 2022
12 05 2022
Historique:
received:
12
01
2022
accepted:
28
04
2022
entrez:
13
5
2022
pubmed:
14
5
2022
medline:
18
5
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Childhood fractures can have a significant impact on the daily lives of families affecting children's normal activities and parent's work. Wrist fractures are the most common childhood fracture. The more serious wrist fractures, that can look visibly bent, are often treated with surgery to realign the bones; but this may not be necessary as bent bones straighten in growing children. The children's radius acute fracture fixation trial (CRAFFT) is a multicentre randomised trial of surgery versus a cast without surgery for displaced wrist fractures. Little is known about how families experience these wrist fractures and how they manage treatment uncertainty. This study aimed to understand families' experience of this injury and what it is like to be asked to include their child in a clinical trial. Nineteen families (13 mothers, 7 fathers, 2 children) from across the UK participated in telephone interviews. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Our findings highlight parents' desire to be a good parent through the overarching theme "protecting my injured child". To protect their child after injury, parents endeavoured to make the right decisions about treatment and provide comfort to their child but they experienced ongoing worry about their child's recovery. Our findings show that parents felt responsible for the decision about their child's treatment and their child's recovery. They also reveal the extent to which parents worried about the look of their child's wrist and their need for reassurance that the wrist was healing. Our findings show that protecting their child after injury can be challenging for parents who need support to make decisions about treatment and confidently facilitate their child's recovery. They also highlight the importance of providing information about treatments, acknowledging parents' concerns and their desire to do the right thing for their child, reassuring parents that their child's wrist will heal and ensuring parents understand what to expect as their child recovers.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Childhood fractures can have a significant impact on the daily lives of families affecting children's normal activities and parent's work. Wrist fractures are the most common childhood fracture. The more serious wrist fractures, that can look visibly bent, are often treated with surgery to realign the bones; but this may not be necessary as bent bones straighten in growing children. The children's radius acute fracture fixation trial (CRAFFT) is a multicentre randomised trial of surgery versus a cast without surgery for displaced wrist fractures. Little is known about how families experience these wrist fractures and how they manage treatment uncertainty. This study aimed to understand families' experience of this injury and what it is like to be asked to include their child in a clinical trial.
METHODS
Nineteen families (13 mothers, 7 fathers, 2 children) from across the UK participated in telephone interviews. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
RESULTS
Our findings highlight parents' desire to be a good parent through the overarching theme "protecting my injured child". To protect their child after injury, parents endeavoured to make the right decisions about treatment and provide comfort to their child but they experienced ongoing worry about their child's recovery. Our findings show that parents felt responsible for the decision about their child's treatment and their child's recovery. They also reveal the extent to which parents worried about the look of their child's wrist and their need for reassurance that the wrist was healing.
CONCLUSION
Our findings show that protecting their child after injury can be challenging for parents who need support to make decisions about treatment and confidently facilitate their child's recovery. They also highlight the importance of providing information about treatments, acknowledging parents' concerns and their desire to do the right thing for their child, reassuring parents that their child's wrist will heal and ensuring parents understand what to expect as their child recovers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35549910
doi: 10.1186/s12887-022-03340-z
pii: 10.1186/s12887-022-03340-z
pmc: PMC9097445
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
270Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s).
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