Parental views of interventions to reduced interruptions to medication
Research type
Research Study
Full title
An exploration of parental views of interventions to reduced interruptions to medication administration within Paediatric Intensive Care
IRAS ID
237172
Contact name
Joseph C Manning
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Coventry University
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 13 days
Research summary
This study is part of a larger study which aims to explore interventions to reduce interruptions to medicine administration in Paediatric Intensive Care. Previous stages have explored current practice and health care professional’s experiences of using strategies to reduce interruptions to medicine administration. This stage will explore parental experiences.
Interruptions to the delivery of medicines in Paediatric Intensive Care units (PICU) are frequent (Bower, 2015.) These interruptions have been noted to affect the nurse’s ability to remember important steps in the medicine process (Grundgieger and Sanderson, 2009). Another study, Bower et al (2017) identified that parents of critically ill children are an important part of the process, however, their experiences are not documented within the current literature.
Therefore, this study aims to explore parental attitudes towards medicine delivery, what thoughts and feelings influence these views and their experiences of the process. In addition, the study also aims to understand what is feasible and acceptable to parents in relation to strategies which aim to reduce interruptions to the medicine delivery process.
The study will recruit parents from three different PICU’s in the Midlands region. Parents will have been present in PICU for longer than 24 hours and will need to understand and speak English. Participants will take part in a semi-structured in-depth interview. The interview will be arranged at a time convenient to the parent and by a method (face to face or via telephone) chosen by them and will last a maximum of 45 minutes. The interviews will be recorded and the analysis will search for factors which influence the use and acceptability of strategies to reduce interruptions to medicine administration.REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/EM/0042
Date of REC Opinion
23 Mar 2018
REC opinion
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