The Experiences of Parents Learning Physiotherapy Techniques for Their Child

Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Developmental Disabilities

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02090946

1507/WSHT/2012 and 11/163/WIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The experiences of learning from paediatric physiotherapists were explored through unstructured interviews applying Colazzi's method to interpret the data. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, six parents responsible for a physiotherapy home programme for their child were selected through convenience sampling. The purpose of this study was to obtain rich and valid information that could be analysed. The phenomenon of their learning experiences was formed and explored, its implications discussed and inferences made in light of current physiotherapy service delivery.

Enrollment: 6 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parent/main carer of a child with a long term physical condition receiving physiotherapy in the United Kingdom for at least six months.

Exclusion criteria

• parents experiencing physiotherapy outside UK practice.
• parents to whom English is not their first language.
• parents under 16 years of age

Trial design

6 participants in 1 patient group

parental experiences

Description:

interviews