We involved the parents of paediatric patients in the first part of the three-stage WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) process. Forty-two parents took part in the study. They came to the theatre suite with their child and into the induction room. Immediately before induction of anaesthesia they were present at, and took part in, the first stage of the three-stage SSC process, confirming with s...

BACKGROUND The admission of a very premature infant to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is often a difficult time for parents. This paper explores parents' views and experiences of the care for their very premature baby on NICU. METHODS Parents were eligible if they had a baby born before 32 weeks gestation and cared for in a NICU, and spoke English well. 32 mothers and 7 fathers were ...

BACKGROUND The traditional paternalistic approach to medical decision-making is moving towards a climate of greater patient and/or surrogate involvement. Despite this, there is considerable debate regarding patient preferences for participation in medical decision-making and its effect on patient satisfaction and outcome. This study was designed to examine parents' preferences for participation...

Abstract Parents’ involvement in their child’s educational and therapy choices is an important aspect of therapy. This may be related to satisfaction with service providers’ direct child services family-related involvement. Additionally, civil unrest influence parents’ satisfaction. For example, the Syrian war, which began 2011, has influenced families children schools, specifically who have di...

The transmission of positive values between parents and children is generally considered to be the hallmark of successful socialization. As this issue has been widely discussed but surprisingly little researched - especially with reference to core sport values - in this study we aimed to: 1) analyze adolescent athletes' acceptance of the sport values their parents want to transmit to them (i.e....

This study examines whether and how couples share the provision of informal care for their parents. Four waves of the British General Household Survey contain cross-sectional information about caring for parents and parents-in-law. Descriptive and multivariate analyses were conducted on 2214 couples that provided parent care. The findings emphasise married men’s contribution to informal caring ...

Parents play a central role in their children’s emotional and overall development. To provide the most developmentally sound environment, professionals need to communicate the fine points of research and clinical studies effectively. This article details many strategies for reaching parents; perhaps the most important lessons are to be culturally sensitive, be positive, be relevant, and speak c...

Parent involvement and family-school partnerships have been shown to lead to positive effects on children’s academic achievement. A meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize the empirical literature on parent involvement and family-school partnership interventions across children’s language arts achievement outcomes. Using a multivariate regression model, 168 effect sizes within 45 studies publ...

The present study reviewed the literature about intervention programs for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) among children. ASD is a long-term neurodevelopment disorder that is identified as impairment in the context of social communication and interaction, and the predominance of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities. Intervention programs have objectives such as...

Parents need to understand temperament because it has an impact on their daily interactions with their children. The essential messages for parents should be that temperament traits are real; they are important for both child and parent, and they are best managed by accommodation, not confrontation or attempts to change them. Parents can be reached at all levels of professional contact througho...