Elevate : The International Journal of Nursing Education, Practice and Research
Vol 1 No 1 (2018): Elevate, The International Journal of Nursing Education, Practice and Research

The Parents Experience in Caring Children with Learning Difficulties in Children and Adolescent Polyclinic in National Mental Health Hospital

Windy Freska (Faculty of Nursing, Andalas University, Padang)
Zabidah Putit (University of Serawak, Malaysia)
Reni Dayati (Nursing Academy, POLTEKES, Padang)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2018

Abstract

Purpose: This exploratory, qualitative study was conducted to explore parents experience for parenting a child with learning difficulties . Method: We recruited a purposive sample of 6 mother who were caring for a child with learning difficulties at home from children and adolescent Polyclinic in national Mental Health Hospital, semi-structured interviews between April and June 2015. Each interview lasted for about an hour. We analyzed the interview data using qualitative content analysis. Data was analyzed by applying Collaizi technique. Findings: The research identified themes: Provide an emotional response and physical response in parenting, Participants face challenges in accepting and adapting to their child's learning difficulties in the form of emotional responses as well as physical responses. Conclusions: Our findings indicate a few important educational needs of parents in caring for a child with learning difficulties To facilitate effective parenting, holistic and individualized needs assessment, families especially mothers will face challenges in accepting and adapting to their children such as stress, changes in the lifestyle of the mother and her family, In addition to adapting to the condition of the child, the mother also struggles to be able to face the pressure in treatment and confusion in the future for her child.

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elevate

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Health Professions Medicine & Pharmacology Nursing Public Health

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Elevate aims to supply scientists of health with resources in order to provide the scientific knowledge through the publication of peer-reviewed, high quality, scientific papers and other material on all topics related to nursing and health sciences such as pharmacology, pharmacy, public health, ...