Developmental Disabilities
Conditions
Keywords
children with physical disabilities, home activity programs, home programmes, learning, therapeutic relationship, phenomenology, physiotherapy, clinicians who teach, parent perspective, parent-professional relationships, Parents/carers, long term physiotherapy needs
Brief summary
The experiences of learning from paediatric physiotherapists were explored through unstructured interviews applying Colazzi's method to interpret the data. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, six parents responsible for a physiotherapy home programme for their child were selected through convenience sampling. The purpose of this study was to obtain rich and valid information that could be analysed. The phenomenon of their learning experiences was formed and explored, its implications discussed and inferences made in light of current physiotherapy service delivery.
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Brighton & Sussex Medical School
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
CROSS_SECTIONAL
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* parent/main carer of a child with a long term physical condition receiving physiotherapy in the United Kingdom for at least six months.
Exclusion criteria
* parents experiencing physiotherapy outside UK practice. * parents to whom English is not their first language. * parents under 16 years of age
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| the learning experiences of parents | after six months of physiotherapy | using Colazzi's analysis interviews are coded and relevant data formed into themes that form the phenomenon. |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed