Supporting Parents Through the COVID-19 Pandemic-Swedish Child Health Services Nurses' Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study.

IF 2.3 4区 医学 Q2 NURSING
Nursing Open Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.1002/nop2.70200
Marie Golsäter, Heléne Appelgren Engström, Maria Harder
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Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to investigate Child Health Services nurses' experiences of adjusting their parental support in response to parents' loneliness and concerns about their parenthood during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: The study has a cross-sectional design based on self-reported data.

Method: The study is based on a study-specific questionnaire created by the research group and took place in the context of the Child Health Services in two regions of Sweden. All 180 eligible child health nurses were invited to answer the questionnaire, and 130 nurses answered the questionnaire. The questions with fixed answers were analysed using descriptive statistics, and those with free-text answers were analysed using content analysis.

Results: The nurses described parental support as having partly changed during the pandemic; the nurses also described a lack of parental support in groups and how the group-based parental support was replaced with individual targeted visits. Further, the nurses stated that, in encounters with the Child Health Services during the pandemic, parents broadly expressed feeling lonely and isolated in their parenthood.

Conclusion: The results of this study can be used to develop parental support in child health services beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The results shed light on the need for more person-centred parental support at the Child Health Services to avoid parents' feelings of loneliness on both an individual and a group level. The great importance of parenting support in groups highlights the significance of developing this form of parental support in Child Health Services to facilitate parents' feeling secure in their parenting and thus promote the child's health.

Patient or public contribution: No patient or public contribution.

在COVID-19大流行期间支持父母——瑞典儿童卫生服务护士的经验:一项横断面研究。
目的:本研究旨在调查儿童保健服务护士在COVID-19大流行期间调整父母支持以应对父母的孤独感和对父母身份的担忧的经验。设计:本研究采用基于自我报告数据的横断面设计。方法:该研究是基于研究小组创建的研究特定问卷,并在瑞典两个地区的儿童保健服务背景下进行的。邀请所有符合条件的180名儿童保健护士填写问卷,130名护士填写问卷。固定答案的问题采用描述性统计分析,自由文本答案的问题采用内容分析分析。结果:护士描述父母的支持在大流行期间发生了部分变化;护士还描述了群体中缺乏父母的支持,以及如何用个人有针对性的访问取代以群体为基础的父母支持。此外,护士们说,在大流行期间与儿童保健服务机构接触时,父母们普遍表示,他们在为人父母方面感到孤独和孤立。结论:本研究结果可用于发展COVID-19大流行后儿童卫生服务中的父母支持。研究结果表明,儿童健康服务中心需要更多以人为本的父母支持,以避免父母在个人和群体层面上产生孤独感。在群体中提供父母支持的重要性突出了在儿童保健服务中发展这种形式的父母支持的重要性,以促进父母在养育子女方面的安全感,从而促进儿童的健康。患者或公众捐款:没有患者或公众捐款。
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Nursing Open
Nursing Open Nursing-General Nursing
CiteScore
3.60
自引率
4.30%
发文量
298
审稿时长
17 weeks
期刊介绍: Nursing Open is a peer reviewed open access journal that welcomes articles on all aspects of nursing and midwifery practice, research, education and policy. We aim to publish articles that contribute to the art and science of nursing and which have a positive impact on health either locally, nationally, regionally or globally
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