Recruiting bereaved parents for research after infant death in the neonatal intensive care unit

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• 作者：Erin R. Currie ; PhD ; RN^a ; ^{ecurrie@uab.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Cathy Roche ; PhD ; RN^a ; ^{croche@uab.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Becky J. Christian ; PhD ; RN^b ; ^{becky.christian@louisville.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Marie Bakitas ; DNSc ; NP-C^a ; ^c ; ^{mbakitas@uab.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Karen Meneses ; PhD ; RN^a ; ^{menesesk@uab.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Sensitive topic ; Infant death ; Bereaved parents ; Recruitment ; Qualitative research ; Neonatal intensive care unit
• 刊名：Applied Nursing Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：32
• 期：Complete
• 页码：281-285
• 全文大小：216 K

文摘

Understanding parental experiences following infant death in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a high research priority and a necessary first step to improving health services. However, recruiting bereaved parents to discuss their experiences on such an extremely sensitive topic can be challenging and research procedures must be planned carefully in order to get an adequate sample. There is little published in the literature detailing specific strategies for recruiting bereaved parents for grief research, especially strategies for contacting parents and identifying factors that might affect participation. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of recruiting bereaved parents into a qualitative research study exploring parental NICU experiences and grief responses following infant death. We describe a successful recruitment plan that led to the enrollment of difficult to recruit participants such as fathers, and individuals representing minorities and those from lower socioeconomic (SES) groups. Bereaved parents of infants after an NICU hospitalization should continue to be recruited for research studies for their unique perspectives and valuable insights about the devastating experience of infant death. Participants in this study reported more benefits than harm and the results addressed a critical gap in the literature.