Constructing a relevant decision aid for parents of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Background: To develop and test a decision aid for counseling parents of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Local problem: Parental education about complex conditions is not standardized and communication and understanding may not be adequate. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were co...

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Published in:Journal of perinatology 2017-12, Vol.37 (12), p.1341-1345
Main Authors: Skibo, M, Guillen, U, Zhang, H, Munson, D, Mackley, A, Nilan, K, Kirpalani, H
Format: Article
Language:English
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Adult
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia - psychology
Care and treatment
Child
Children
Counseling
Counseling - methods
Decision making
Decision support systems
Decision Support Techniques
Dysplasia
Education
Educational aspects
Female
Health aspects
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Human-computer interaction
Humans
Lung diseases
Male
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Neonates
Parents
Parents & parenting
Parents - psychology
Patient Education as Topic - methods
Pediatric research
Pediatric Surgery
Pediatrics
Pictures
Program Development - methods
Qualitative Research
quality-improvement-article
Research design
Social aspects
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Summary:Background: To develop and test a decision aid for counseling parents of children with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Local problem: Parental education about complex conditions is not standardized and communication and understanding may not be adequate. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 33 neonatal clinicians and 12 parents of children with BPD using a qualitative research design. The interviews were used to identify education topics that were felt to be important in BPD education. These topics were then used to create a visual decision aid to be used in counseling sessions with parents. The decision aid was then used in mock counseling sessions with 15 ‘experienced’ participants and 7 ‘naïve’ participants to assess its efficacy. The participants completed a pre and post test to assess change in knowledge as well as an 11-question Likert style acceptability survey. Intervention: Implementation of a decision aid while educating parents about BPD. Results: Topics identified during the interviews were used to create eight educational cards which included pictures, pictographs and statistics. Overall, participants thought the decision aid contained an appropriate amount of information, were easy to understand and improved their knowledge about BPD. Testing demonstrated a significant increase in knowledge in both the ‘experienced’ ( P
ISSN:0743-8346
1476-5543
DOI:10.1038/jp.2017.141