Healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of the hospitalized child.
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.
Daneman
Susan
S
Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA. sdaneman@childmed.dallas.tx.us
Macaluso
Joy
J
Guzzetta
Cathie E
CE
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