Purpose
This study was conducted to design services for improving the quality of care of hospitalized children with acute diseases.
Methods
The service design process had four phases: discovery, definition, development, and delivery. The participants were 23 mothers of hospitalized children with an acute disease, and seven nurses and three doctors working at a pediatric hospital. Data were collected through self-report questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and observations. The data were analyzed using content analysis and descriptive statistics.
Results
The participants reported needs for explanations about the treatment, skillful nursing, and environmental improvements. The concept of the services was familiarity and enjoyment, aimed at solving the problems of unfamiliarity and boredom. A six-guideline was presented for improving the quality of care of hospitalized children with acute diseases: improvement of awareness, development of educational materials, improvement of skills, environmental improvements, play activities, and evaluations of user satisfaction.
Conclusion
These findings indicate that nursing services should deliver familiarity and enjoyment to hospitalized children and their families. The findings of this study emphasize that the service design methodology can be used to improve the quality of care of hospitalized children with acute diseases.

Citations

• Nurses’ experiences of children’s fall accidents in South Korea: a phenomenological study
  Hye Jin Kim, Hyun Young Koo
  Child Health Nursing Research.2026; 32(1): 39.     CrossRef

Purpose
The purpose of this study was to develop parent coaching domains for the health management of childhood leukemia survivors.
Methods
In this study, we conducted a literature review and in-depth interviews with 6 parents of childhood leukemia survivors who were identified using convenience sampling. We identified areas of parent coaching through the 4 stages of the GROW model, which are: goal setting, realistic grasp, confirmation of realization, and search for alternatives.
Results
Nine domains and 27 subcategories emerged from the study. The 9 parent coaching domains for the health management of childhood leukemia survivors were routine life management, education and information provision, emotional support for the surviving children, social support for the surviving children, follow-up management, family support, school life management, symptom management, and improvement of growth and development.
Conclusion
This research developed 9 parent coaching domains for the health management of children surviving leukemia. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the efficient health management of childhood leukemia survivors by enabling practitioners to continuously identify new coaching domains as needed for their health management. Researchers should improve the health management of childhood leukemia survivors by developing nursing interventions for these new coaching areas.

Citations

• A structural equation model of developing a partnership between pediatric nurses and parents of children with cancer in South Korea
  Sung-Hyun Lim, In Young Cho
  Journal of Pediatric Nursing.2022; 63: e27.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
This study was conducted to identify current health care management and barriers in health care management according to ecological systems, and to develop an ecological model for enhancing health care in child care centers.
METHODS
Focus group interviews were conducted with directors and teachers of child care centers, and with parents of children enrolled in child care. Data were analyzed by the latent content analysis method.
RESULTS
Twelve categories of health care management were identified. Barriers to child health care included knowledge deficit and lack of competence in health care by teachers, lack of useful health care manuals, non-existence of professional child health care personnel in child care centers, lack of mutual information sharing and disagreement on child health conditions between child care personnel and parents, lack of specific health related child care inspection criteria and time flexible child care centers with a lack of policy on collaboration with health care facilities. The ecological model developed included specific strategies to improve health care management in child care.
CONCLUSION
The proposed ecological model to improve child health care management should be useful to plan future health care program considering both the immediate and indirect social environment surrounding children in child care.

Citations

• Κλίμακα αξιολόγησης της σχολικής ετοιμότητας για παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας 5-6 ετών: κατασκευή και ψυχομετρικά χαρακτηριστικά
  Δέσποινα Τσαούση, Ασημίνα M. Ράλλη, Πέτρος Ρούσσος, Φαίη Αντωνίου
  Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychologi.2023; 28(1): 292.     CrossRef