title: Healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of the hospitalized child.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of their hospitalized child.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this descriptive, comparative study, 504 pediatric healthcare providers were surveyed to measure attitudes toward parent participation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results from 256 respondents indicated support for parent participation, but there was substantially less support for parental activities usually carried out by healthcare providers and those involving complex patient care tasks.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although pediatric healthcare providers support parent participation, they tend to draw the line on what they believe are suitable parent activities. Newly developed pain standards and cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines incorporating parent participation have important implications for expanding the boundaries of parental involvement.
authors.affiliation: Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA. sdaneman@childmed.dallas.tx.us
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Daneman
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Macaluso
authors.forename: Cathie E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Guzzetta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D010372:Pediatrics; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D015206:Southwestern United States; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires