TY - JOUR
T1 - Parents’ experience of a shared parent–child stay during the first week of hospitalization in a child psychiatry inpatient ward
AU - Shilton, Tal
AU - Shilton, Hany
AU - Mosheva, Mariela
AU - Amsalem, Doron
AU - Negri, Ofir
AU - Cohen, Tal
AU - Hertz-Palmor, Nimrod
AU - Waniel-Zaga, Ariela
AU - Pesach, Itai M.
AU - Tuval-Mashiach, Rivka
AU - Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit
AU - Gothelf, Doron
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - Hospitalization of children in an inpatient psychiatric ward is stressful for both the children and their parents, and separation from the parents during hospitalization is probably one major cause of this stress. We designated one room in a closed inpatient unit to enable a parent to stay with his/her child, including overnight, during the 1st week of hospitalization. We then examined the parents' experience of the shared parent–child stay. Thirty parents of 16 children aged 6–12 years admitted to our inpatient child psychiatry ward completed in-depth semi-structured interviews after that week's experience. The interviews covered the parents’ experiences of the 1st week in the larger context of pre-hospitalization period, which also includes the decision to hospitalize the child. The contents of the interviews were analyzed by means of independent coders that identified the following major themes: (1) ambivalence and confusion of the parents as related to their decision to hospitalize their child in the time period just before admission; (2) gradual process of separation from the child during the joint stay at the ward; (3) building confidence and trust toward the staff. Themes 2 and 3 express benefits from the joint hospitalization that may have a strong positive impact on the child's and the parent's recovery. These themes warrant further evaluation of the proposed shared stay during hospitalization in future studies.
AB - Hospitalization of children in an inpatient psychiatric ward is stressful for both the children and their parents, and separation from the parents during hospitalization is probably one major cause of this stress. We designated one room in a closed inpatient unit to enable a parent to stay with his/her child, including overnight, during the 1st week of hospitalization. We then examined the parents' experience of the shared parent–child stay. Thirty parents of 16 children aged 6–12 years admitted to our inpatient child psychiatry ward completed in-depth semi-structured interviews after that week's experience. The interviews covered the parents’ experiences of the 1st week in the larger context of pre-hospitalization period, which also includes the decision to hospitalize the child. The contents of the interviews were analyzed by means of independent coders that identified the following major themes: (1) ambivalence and confusion of the parents as related to their decision to hospitalize their child in the time period just before admission; (2) gradual process of separation from the child during the joint stay at the ward; (3) building confidence and trust toward the staff. Themes 2 and 3 express benefits from the joint hospitalization that may have a strong positive impact on the child's and the parent's recovery. These themes warrant further evaluation of the proposed shared stay during hospitalization in future studies.
KW - Child
KW - Hospitalization
KW - Mental health
KW - Parents
KW - Shared stay
KW - Stigma
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U2 - 10.1007/s00787-023-02225-5
DO - 10.1007/s00787-023-02225-5
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C2 - 37202584
AN - SCOPUS:85159676007
SN - 1018-8827
VL - 33
SP - 1039
EP - 1046
JO - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
JF - European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
IS - 4
ER -