Parents' experiences of seeking support with post-brain injury changes
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Parents' experiences of seeking help and support with post-brain injury symptoms and changes in children and adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury
IRAS ID
227438
Contact name
Robyn H McCarron
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 25 days
Research summary
This proposed research is a qualitative study (research aimed at understanding people’s experiences through words rather than numbers) aimed at trying to gain a deeper understanding of parent’s experiences of seeking help and support with post-brain injury symptoms and changes in children and adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury.
This research will involve participants being interviewed by a researcher. The interviews will be semi-structured, meaning that the interviewer will have some set topics they need to cover, but the flow and breadth of the interview will be partially directed by the research participant. The interviews will be recorded and will be transcribed (written down) from the recording at a later date by the researcher. The interviews will be analysed using a grounded theory constant comparative approach. This means that the researcher will read through the transcripts to identify key themes in the interview. With each new interview these themes will be refined so that commonly occurring themes across the research participants’ interviews are identified and defined.
The research participants will be parents whose children have experienced an acquired brain injury. The children and adolescents must be between the ages of five years to 18 years old at the time of the study, and the time of the injury and their initial discharge from hospital post-injury must be at least two years prior to the study start date. The study participants must currently reside in East Anglia (defined as the counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex).
REC name
Wales REC 4
REC reference
18/WA/0060
Date of REC Opinion
16 Feb 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion