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Wright, Jonathan. "Sex differences in parental investment : seeking an evolutionary stable strategy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256387.
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Topham, Maren. "Parental Attitudes of Immunization in Children with Special Healthcare Needs: A Qualitative Study." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7271.
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Background and Purpose: Just over 15% of children under 18 years of age in the UnitedStates, or approximately 11.2 million children, are estimated to have special healthcare needs.Although children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) make up a small percentage of thepediatric population, they account for over one third of pediatric medical care. Parental attitudesregarding immunization play a significant role in vaccination rates among children. The purposeof this research is to explore parental attitudes regarding immunization of CSHCN.Methods: This qualitative study focused on parental perceptions and beliefs aboutimmunizations for CSHCN. Sixteen participants, who were parents of CSHCN from onepediatric specialty care clinic participated in focus groups. Institutional review board approvalwas received prior to data collection.Results: While the purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of parents ofCSHCN regarding immunizations, analysis revealed parents simply wanted to share their lifeexperiences rearing these children, with issues of immunization being secondary. Participantsdescribed the experience of caring for their CSHCN related to isolationism and the weight ofresponsibility as leader of their child<'>s care. Additionally, the majority of parents thatparticipated viewed childhood vaccinations in a positive light. Parents acknowledged that it wasimportant for their own children to receive vaccines. Participants also recognized that it wasimportant for the community to be vaccinated in order to protect their child. However, the desirefor individualized care, at times, caused parents to disregard the immunization schedulerecommended by Center for Disease Control and Prevention.Conclusions: Health care providers can be effective and influential members of the healthcare team by engaging in community based education about vaccines, building trustingrelationships with parents and helping parents understand the need to follow the recommendedschedule for immunizations.
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Ben-Ami, Gabriel. "Secular parents' choice of Ultra Orthodox day-care : a grounded theory study of parental decision making." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440248.
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Lee, Il-Rang. "A comparative study of parental perceptions in the United States and Korea focusing on university early childhood education and child care centers." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006leei.pdf.
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Fairhurst, Natalie A. "A qualitative study examining parental experiences and aspirations regarding participation in decision-making in two neonatal intensive care units." Thesis, University of Salford, 2018. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/48554/.
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Background: Parents of babies hospitalised in neonatal intensive care units in the United Kingdom are faced with multiple decisions regarding their baby's care throughout their neonatal journey. There are disparities in care across the 23 neonatal networks in the UK, with parental participation in decision-making being an area in which significant improvements in practice could be made. Aim: To establish parents' experiences of participating in clinical decision-making whilst eliciting the aspirations of parents to participate in clinical decision-making. Objectives: The objectives of this study were to: - Establish parental understanding about their baby's admission to NICU
- Identify parents' perceptions of their level of involvement in decision-making about their baby's management
- Decipher if parents felt listened to by healthcare professionals
- Determine how comfortable parents were with questioning and challenging the care provided to their babies
- Ascertain how parents felt about decisions that they had made, if any
- Identify learning for professionals to improve care further.
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Roy, Jessica Kate. "Children living with parental substance misuse : a longitudinal study of factors associated with children's social care outcomes in England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2018. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.761229.
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Melling-Williams, Natalie. "Parental compliance with therapy home programmes within a school for learners with special educational needs : an exploratory study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1708.
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Thesis (MSc (Rehabilitation))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.The school that was studied caters for learners with special educational needs in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The learners at the school have a variety of physical, intellectual and learning disabilities. They receive rehabilitation inputs aimed at optimising their potential as school learners and as adults. These include occupational and speech therapy, physiotherapy, learning support and educational psychology. The therapists who work with them often utilise home programmes to involve the parents in their child’s therapy and to achieve carry-over from the therapy sessions. Among the professionals at the school there is currently a perception that therapy home programmes are poorly complied with and that the rehabilitation outcomes of the learners are being disadvantaged as a result. A need therefore arose to explore this issue. This study aims to determine the extent of compliance with therapy home programmes by parents and learners of this school. The study also attempted to elicit factors identified by parents and therapists as inhibitors to and/or facilitators for compliance with the home programmes. A descriptive, analytical study design was used. All therapists working at the school, as well as the parents of learners who were expected to comply with a home programme, were invited to participate. Data was collected using two self-compiled, self-administered questionnaires. A parent focus group was added later in an attempt to elicit more depth with regard to some of the issues explored. The data was analysed using quantitative and qualitative methods. Seventy-one percent of parents reported complying at levels adequate for therapeutic benefit to be achieved. However, 25% of the parents reported complying by less than 24% of the time prescribed. The barriers to compliance identified in this study include the quality of teamwork between the parents and the professionals, attitudinal barriers from both the parents and the therapists, the quality of training for the parents and practical difficulties. The family-centred, collaborative model of teamwork was recommended to both the therapists and the parents to facilitate parental input at all levels of the planning and design of the rehabilitation programme.
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Lauridsen, Linda. "Patienters upplevelser vid parenteral nutritionsbehandling hemma vid palliativ vård på grund av cancer – en litteraturstudiePatients experiences of parental nutrition at home due to palliative care of cancer - a literature study." Thesis, Kristianstad University College, Department of Health Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-4520.
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Malnutrition is a common problem for patients with cancer that leads to anxiety and frustration for the whole family. Patients with palliative cancer disease treated at home are entitled to an adequate nutrition treatment suited to individual needs.
Aim: The aim of the literature review was to describe how cancer patients experience their nutriment situation before and after the introduction of parental nutrition and the experience of getting home parental nutrition. Methods: A literature study was carried out where qualitative and quantitative articles were examined. Findings: Five qualitative and five quantitative articles were examined. Four categories were created; patients experiences of their nutriment situation before the introduction of parental nutrition, mental experiences receiving parental nutrition at home, physical experiences receiving parental nutrition at home, patients experiences in general receiving parental nutrition at home. Conclusion: Through the parental nutrition treatment at home patients felt that the physical condition improved and the physiological symptoms were decreased. Even though family life was affected patients strived for a normal life. More studies are needed on the role of the nurse in the palliative care regarding nutritional treatment and how her support affects the patient’s positive experience.
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Svensson, Susanne. "BVC-sköterskors erfarenheter och reflektioner kring föräldrastöd rörande spädbarns sömn : En intervjustudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-19810.
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Bakgrund: För föräldrarna till ett spädbarn har barnets sömn stor betydelse. BVC-sköterskan är den som främjar barns hälsa och ger föräldrastöd. Syfte: Syftet med den här studien var att beskriva BVC-sköterskors erfarenheter och redovisa reflektioner kring föräldrastöd som rör sömnfrågor hos spädbarn upp till ett års ålder. Metod: Studien hade en beskrivande design med en kvalitativ ansats och genomfördes via semistrukturerade intervjuer med åtta BVC-sköterskor inom BVC-verksamheter i en mellanstor svensk kommun. Materialet har analyserats med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet utgjordes av tre beskrivande kategorier. Kategorin ”Samtalar om barnet och hjälper föräldrarna att se till barnets behov” beskriver hur BVC-sköterskorna kommunicerar med föräldrarna om deras barn och vilka råd de ger för att förebygga problem. Kategorin ”Ger föräldrarna strategier att klara sin nya livssituation” beskriver hur BVC- sköterskorna bedömde föräldrarnas individuella behov av stöd i föräldraskapet kring sömnfrågor och om BVC-sköterskornas beskrivning av råd de ger kring omgivningsfaktorer som kan underlätta. Kategorin ”Spädbarns sömnproblem är komplexa och det finns sällan en enkel lösning” beskriver hur BVC-sköterskorna arbetar med föräldrastöd när de får kännedom om att ett spädbarn upplevs ha ett sömnproblem, vad de har för reflektioner runt det arbetet och vad de har erfarenhet av som kan ligga bakom sömnproblem. Slutsats: Slutsatsen är att BVC-sköterskorna gav råd om åtgärder som förebyggde sömnproblem. Det var ofta samma typ av åtgärder som också kunde avhjälpa sömnproblem. När barnen utvecklat större sömnproblem så krävdes det ofta mer struktur och konsekvens av föräldrarna. BVC-sköterskorna utgick från hela familjens situation när de stöttade föräldrar.Background: For the parents of an infant the child's sleep is of great importance. The child health care nurse (CHCN) is the one who ensures children's health and provide parental support. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the CHCN's experiences and reflections on parental support in sleep related issues in infants up to one year of age. Method: The present study had a descriptive design with a qualitative approach and was carried out through semi-structured interviews with eight nurses at child health care centers in a medium-sized Swedish municipality. The material was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Result: The result consisted of three descriptive categories. The category "Talks about the infant and helps the parents to ensure the infant's needs," describes how the CHCN's communicate with parents about their children and what advice they provide to prevent problems. The category "Gives parents strategies to cope with their new life situation" describes how CHCN's assessed the parents' individual needs for parental support around sleep issues and about the surrounding factors that can facilitate. The category "Infant sleep problems are complex and there is rarely a simple solution" describes how the CHCN's works with parental support when they gain knowledge that an infant is perceived to have a sleep problem, their reflections on the work and their experiences of sleep problems. Conclusion: The conclusion was that the CHCN's gave advice on measures that prevented sleep problems. It was often the same type of action that could also remedy sleep problems. When children develop greater sleep problems it often took more structure and consistency of the parents to manage it. CHCN's emanated from the whole family's situation when they supported parents.
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Hubbard, Robert Graham. "A case study, with specific reference to the role of parents, in the teaching and learning of a residential special school for children with autism." Thesis, Brunel University, 2015. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/13727.
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Context: The purpose of this research was to examine if the educational approach (the Approach) adopted at Kilnbarn Residential Special School (the School) secured the developmental learning pathways for its pupils. All pupils were diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and many had single or multiple comorbid conditions. The research sought to understand how their parents could be substantive partners and co-creators in the design, modification, and implementation of the Approach. It was a unique feature of Kilnbarn’s Approach to fulfil the potential of parents to be co-creators and co-therapists in their child’s progress. Objective: The case study became one of the instruments in which to test the School’s effectiveness in meeting the needs of its pupils. It enabled a review of the School’s methodology, curriculum and organisational practices. The Approach was designed to provide secure developmental learning pathways for its pupils, improving their quality of life and independence. Method: The case study design, was chosen as it was considered the most appropriate research model. A Parents’ Questionnaire, distributed annually over 3 consecutive years (2004-6) was the evidential basis for this study. Interviews and collected data were used to analyse and evaluate the progress of the School through parents’ eyes. Results: The combination of parents working with professionals to maximise the culture of “technical eclecticism” seems to be, in the light of this case study, best suited to the needs of children diagnosed with autism, SLD and comorbid conditions. The child should be immersed in a consistent approach across all areas of their life. Improvements in well-being, communication and joint action routines, sleep balance, a healthy diet, physical exercise, incontinence and behaviours was observed. Conclusion The study identified that parents could be substantive partners and influencers in the design and modification of the Kilnbarn Approach. The Approach secured developmental learning pathways for its pupils and appeared to improve their quality of life. Parents as co-creators and co-therapists had regained ownership of their child’s quality of life, learning outcomes and personal development. From the experience and unique evidence of this case study schools should utilise and profit from the mass resource of their parents. It has been shown that the Kilnbarn Approach was, during the research, an effective and suitable intervention for the many children it served. It is hoped that further studies in this field will explore the concept of a “technical eclectic” approach that further validates and brings together interventions that are conceptually grounded and incorporates evidence-based focused intervention practices.
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YANG, YA-WEN, and 楊雅雯. "The Study of Young Children’s Temperament and Parental Reactions in Child Care Center." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52cn89.
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碩士中臺科技大學
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The study aimed to examine children and child care centers’ parents consciousness towards infants and child temperament with regard to the parents’ emotional responses. Furthermore, the study looked into different background variables of infants and their temperament, as well as, different background changes will lead to particular performamces. The study also analyzed the aspects of diverse parents’ reactions toward their children temperament. The questionnaire adapted in this research paper, Infant Temperament Questionnaire, ITQ, was edited by Children's Mental Health Center of National Taiwan University Hospital and Children's Mental Health Department of Taipei Municipal Women and Children Hospital. At the same time, the questionnaire of The Parental Emotional Responses Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale, CCNES, by Fabes, Eisenberg and Bernzweig was also used as reference. The objects in this study were of 307 infants in daycare centers in Taichung City and their parents. Toddler Temperament Scale edited and Parent Emotion Reaction Scale were applied to this study; The data gathered was examined and analyzed with independent samples t test and analysis of variance and the findings are shown as follow: 1. Regarding the relation between the awareness of the parents who work in child care centers and the infants’ temperaments, the conclusion was that their intensity of reaction was greater and the activity amount was higher. 2. Regarding parental status in emotional reaction, punitive reaction from a mother was greater than a father, whereas, a father was more of emotion-focused reaction than a mother. Furthermore, fathers were more problem-focused than mothers. 3. Infants of different gender, age, and birth order had differences in temperament. 4. Parents of different gender, age, family structure, education and baby ages had differences in emotional reactions. Finally, this study was based on the results of the research, having further suggestion for child care centers, parents, and child care workers as reference.
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CHEN, JUI-TING, and 陳瑞婷. "A Study Of Jian Jen’s Essays On Parental Function And Care for The Disadvantaged." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59147236877367859216.
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碩士玄奘大學
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Jian Jen is a popular essayist in modern literary circle. A preliminary reading of Jian Jen’s essays often comes with gorgeous, sensitive and surprising writing, followed by her meticulous observation to society, particularly her cares for the disadvantaged groups. She uses the pen to transform softened heart into text, injecting a positive power to the life like a spirit. Being a mother and writer at the same time, she applies the perspective of literati to the educational field. Her focus of creativity gradually shifts to parental interaction throughout the process of accompanying children with growing up. She also proposes her own exceptional opinion on the dimension of parental function. The paper applies the growth phase as the longitude and the creativity course as latitude to portray the literary footsteps of Jian Jen as well as the formation to her thinking in “parental function and care for the disadvantaged.” The paper is divided into two parts, namely the parental education and care for the disadvantaged by first analyzing the writing content regarding themes in parental education, including Jian Jen’s parental education books on “respect for democracy,” “ gender equality,” “moral concepts,” “legal concepts,” and “knowledge skills.” The second part of the study applies concept of extrinsic physiological layer to divide the study into three dimensions, namely the “growth and care,” “health counseling” and “environmental influence” by analyzing t he parental communication techniques in “democratization,” “counseling” and “systemization.” Finally the scope of application techniques is expanded to the social care dimension, namely the “care for the disadvantaged.” Jian Jen’s “care for the disadvantaged” applies the parental issues as the main discussion on socially disadvantaged families with foreign spouse, grandparent education and single parenting, to summarize Jian Jen’s education care for the disadvantaged groups resulted from social and family adversities as well as personal factors.
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Carollo-Zeuner, Christine M. "Parental satisfaction with child care as a function of center type an exploratory study /." 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32484798.html.
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Jung, Huang-Li, and 黃麗蓉. "A Case Study about Parent Education in Child-Care Institute for Matchig with Parental Expectation." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41775769472224512837.
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Hsieh, Tsai-Yun, and 謝采雲. "Study on the Impact of Nurses’ Parental Leave without Pay on the Quality of Care - A Case Study of Hospitals in Taoyuan City." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9a2f7m.
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碩士元智大學
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Taiwan’s birth rate have dropped to 1.0 child in 2009 and Taiwan becomes one of the world’s lowest fertility rates areas. Thus, Labor Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Labor implements application of parental leave without pay in May 1, 2009, which expects to encourage childbirth. However, Taiwan faces on the problem of insufficient nursing human resources and the implementation of parental leave without pay allowance policy. Therefore, this study aims to explore impact of nurses’ parental leave without pay and nursing human resources used in hospital on the quality of care. In this study, we take an in-depth interview to investigate nurse practitioner, nursing supervisor, and experts who have been involved in the period of parental leave without pay and gained some understanding of nursing human resources used in hospital. This study showed that: with low rates of the public child care, the main reason for parental leave without pay allowances is to take care of their children; whereas, during the parental leave without pay, nursing human resources used in hospital to the quality of care have maximum impact on processes and results of quality when hospital uses flexible hiring nurses care, followed by the use of motorized nurses, the use of reducing nurse staffing and extending working hours and the use of some part-time staff respectively impact on the quality of care. This study suggests that relevant departments of the municipal government of Taoyuan city shall firstly public child care and propose universal related policies to childcare; secondly, it shall encourage the establishment of private nursing human resources institutions to provide nursing staff to substitute for; in addition, it is to suggest that hospitals in Taoyuan City should hire some part-time staffs to share non- professional nursing work of the nursing staff; besides, hospital should also create a positive atmosphere in the work environment to improve satisfaction of the nursing staff and patient as well as reduce the occurrence of abnormal events. Keywords: parental leave without pay, nursing human resources , quality of care
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Hsieh, ShihWei, and 謝世緯. "A Study of Relationship among the Parental Self-efficacy、Organizational Support and the Service Continued willing for Foster Care Parents." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82037930305416015866.
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碩士靜宜大學
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Abstract The goal of this research is to understand the forster care parent’s organization support feeling,the parental self-efficacy as well as the willing to service continues, who are engaged in family foster care service presently.According to the reference and theory,I created and organized“The Organization Support Scale”,“The Parental Self-Efficacy Scale”,and “The willing to Service Continues Scale”as the research instruments.In view of the 22 counties and cities in Taiwan （does not contain Penghu,Jinmen）,I extract 11 counties and cities in random, and then chose the boarding parents in “the odd numbers”of the organization serial number as the research sample. Finally I got 214 available samples.The main results are as follows： 1.The foster parents will have the remarkable difference in the organization support feeling when they experience “the foster child population ”and “the male foster child student population”differently. 2.The foster parents will feel differently in the parental self-efficacy when they experience differently in “the household income”,“foster motivation”,“foster period of service”,“the past/present foster children population”,“the past foster male child student population”,“the present oldest/youngest foster children age”and “the special problem behavior of the past foster children”. 3.The foster parents will have obvious difference in the willing to service continues when they experience “the past male child students population”differently. 4.“The positive appreciatior”,“the foster motivation”,and “the youngest age of the present foster children” will have the forecast strength to “the confidence ability”.“The positive appreciation”,“the problems solution”and “the university ＆ high school（school record）”will have the forecast strength to “the control ability”,“The positive appreciation”,“the youngest age of the present foster children”, “the university ＆ high school（school record）”,“the number of children”,“the male ＆the female（sex）”and “the longest time of the past children foster ”will have the forecast strength to the “teaching ability”.“The positive apprenciation”,“the youngest age of the present foster children”,“the problems solution”,“the male ＆ female（sex）”,“the longest time of the past children foster”and “the household income between 29999 to 50000 dollars”will have the forecast strength to the “listening ability”.“The positive apprenciation”“the youngest age of the present foster children ”,“the problems solution”,“the university ＆ hight school（school record）”, and “the foster motivation” will have the forecast strength to the “parental self-efficacy”. 5.“The confidence ability”,“the problem solution”,“the specialist training”,“the youngest age of the children” will have the forecast strength in “the approval willing”.“The problems solution”,“the confidence ability”,“the specialist training”,“the positive appreciation”,“the household income between 29999 to 50000 dollars”,and “the foster motivation ”will have the forecast strength to “the organization ownership”.“The confidence ability”,“the problems solution”,“the positive appreciation”,and “the past foster children population”will have the forecast syrength to “the value og honor”. Finally, based on the above conclusion and the discovery, I proposed the concrete proposal to supply the reference for the specialists, the organization,the social work education, the government and the following researchers. Key Words：Family Foster Care、Organizational Support、Parental Self-efficacy、 Service Continued Willing
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"Supporting parental caregivers of children living with life limiting or life threatening illnesses: A Delphi study." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2015-07-2119.
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The purpose of this study was to increase awareness and understanding of parental caregivers’ current support needs in order to provide direction in the development of a theory-based hope intervention. The intervention is intended to improve psychosocial and bereavement support for parental caregivers of children with life limiting (LLI) or life threatening illnesses (LTI). The number of parents who have children living with a LLI/LTI is increasing. The impact of these illnesses on parents is significant as they travel alongside their child and experience emotional, physical, and spiritual upheaval. Current empirical research reveals that this journey challenges parents’ understanding of life, faith, and certainty in the future. Many studies demonstrated that parents’ needs are not consistently met and parents often reported the need for psychosocial support. Hope has been found to be an important psychosocial concept for parents and has been shown to provide support when facing difficult circumstances. For this reason, the concept of hope provided the conceptual framework for this research.
In order to develop a theory-based psychosocial hope intervention for parental caregivers, a large scale privately funded project that included a metasynthesis of current research, a Delphi survey, and focus groups was conducted. All three components of this project were developed by a research team of two doctorate nurse researchers, one pediatric palliative care specialist, one pediatric oncologist, one community member, and a graduate student. The study presented here is based on the Delphi survey only and serves as the graduate student’s master of nursing thesis.
A Delphi survey consisting of three rounds of questions and controlled feedback to experts was employed. Sixty-eight experts were recruited including parental caregivers who have children diagnosed with LLIs or LTIs and those who care for them such as community members, nurses, social workers, and physicians. Based on Bally et al.’s (2013) grounded theory of Keeping Hope Possible, the survey focused on four subprocesses that were identified as essential for parental hope. Experts suggested strategies or activities for each subprocess. Answers were summarized and ranked in order of highest to lowest according to feasibility and effectiveness. The final round revealed a consensus and eight major themes emerged: organize basic needs; connect with others; prioritize self-care; obtain meaningful information; take things day by day; advocate for parental participation; manifest positivity; and celebrate milestones. The survey took place via email to allow easy access to experts and parents globally. This study identified needs of parents of children with LLIs or LTIs in order to develop a theory-based psychosocial hope intervention. Results have the potential to provide direction for a newly developing pediatric palliative care program in Western Canada.
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Paizes, Yulie Panayiota. "The position of unmarried fathers in South Africa: an investigation with reference to a case study." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1514.
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This dissertation looks at the position of the unmarried father in South Africa with regard to obtaining access to his illegitimate child. The writer has focused on three distinct eras in South African family law: the position of unmarried fathers in terms of: the common law; Natural Fathers of Children Born out of Wedlock Act; and the Children's Act. The writer has further focused on a case study. This is to emphasis the difficulty which unmarried fathers have when attempting to go through the courts to have access to his child.
In terms of South African common law, fathers of illegitimate children did not have any form of parental authority over the child. The mothers of illegitimate children have full parental authority over such children. Access in terms of South African common-law is seen as an incident of parental authority. Unmarried fathers nevertheless had the right to approach the high court to obtain access to their children, if the mother of the child refuses to allow the father to have such access. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, there was an overwhelming amount of applications brought by unmarried fathers in the high courts so as to obtain access to their illegitimate children. The case of Van Erk v Holmer 1992 (2) SA 636 (W) sparked victory for unmarried fathers when the learned judge held that all unmarried fathers of children have an inherent right of access to their children. This victory was short-lived. Subsequent case law and in particular the case of B v S 1995 (3) SA 571 (A) enforced the common law and held that unmarried fathers do not have an automatic right to their illegitimate children and that such fathers will have to apply to the high court for such access. Due to the increase in litigation in the late 1980's and early 1990's regarding a father's access to his child born out of wedlock the Natural Fathers of Children Born out of Wedlock Act commenced on 4 September 1998. The South African legislature adopted the approach taken in the case of B v S 1995 (3) SA 571 (A) and rejected the approach taken in the case of Van Erk v Holmer 1992 (2) SA 636 (W) ie the common law continued to remain the approach taken in South Africa.
Legislators recognised that the approach taken in the Natural Fathers of Children Born out of Wedlock Act does not conform to the provisions of the African Charter of the Rights and the Welfare of the Child, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and equality and dignity provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. On 19 June 2006, the Children's Act was effected and will commence once promulgated in the Government Gazette. The writer then determines whether the Children's Act has in practice changed the position of the unmarried father.JURISPRUDENCE
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Mundalamo, Nditsheni Jeremiah. "Factors contributing to external difficulties in the management of juvenile deliquency : a case study of correctional services in the Polokwane management area in Capricon District of Limpopo Province." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/275.
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