Parent satisfaction with early parenting residential services: a telephone interview study.
Early parenting residential units provide a child and family health support and education service for parents experiencing parenting difficulties. An ongoing concern of nursing staff and management is whether the parenting knowledge and skills gained are translated into sustainable parenting practices after discharge. This paper explores the response to a post discharge telephone interview about parents' experience of nursing care during their residential stay and their parenting experience since discharge. A descriptive qualitative approach identified four themes in the parents' responses: greater confidence, greater knowledge about their babies, changing expectations of parenting and their infants, and sustainability of parenting skills.
Centre for Midwifery, Child and Family Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Cathrine
C
Fowler
Chris
C
Rossiter
Julie
J
Maddox
Denise
D
Dignam
Carolyn
C
Briggs
Anne-Lyse
AL
Deguio
Jane
J
Kookarkin
D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D013689:Telephone