Paediatric eye and vision research participation experiences: a systematic review.

Background: For children and young people with eye and vision conditions, research is essential to advancing evidence-based recommendations in diagnosis, prevention, treatments and cures. Patient 'experience' reflects a key measure of quality in health care (Department of Health. High Quality Care for All: NHS Next Stage Review Final Report: The Stationery Office (2008)); research participant 'experiences' are equally important.

Parent-adolescent communication on adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative review and thematic synthesis.

Background: Improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health continues to be a global public health need. Effective parent-adolescent communication on sexual health issues has been cited as a factor that could influence adolescents towards adopting safer sexual behaviour. The current review synthesises qualitative literature to understand the nature and relevance of parent-adolescent sexual and reproductive health communication and the barriers to effective communication in sub-Saharan Africa.

Parents' Perspectives on Their Child's Music Therapy: A Qualitative Study.

This qualitative study explored parents' perspectives on their child receiving individual music therapy in a community setting in an NHS service in London, UK. Parents of children aged 6-11 receiving or recently discharged from music therapy took part. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews which were digitally recorded, transcribed, and analyzed following procedures of inductive thematic analysis.

Ethnographic study of the use of interventions during the second stage of labor in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Routine use of medical interventions during labor has been identified as a clinical area for concern, since such routinized practice is not consistent with an evidence-based approach to care and continues to increase despite efforts to encourage normal childbirth. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore maternity health professionals' use of interventions during the second stage of labor in two hospitals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to understand what influences their decision-making and practices.

Methods: This was an exploratory study using an ethnographic approach.

Time, monetary and other costs of participation in family-based child weight management interventions: qualitative and systematic review evidence.

Background: Childhood overweight and obesity have health and economic impacts on individuals and the wider society. Families participating in weight management programmes may foresee or experience monetary and other costs which deter them from signing up to or completing programmes. This is recognised in the health economics literature, though within this sparse body of work, costs to families are often narrowly defined and not fully accounted for.

What makes for a 'good' or 'bad' paediatric diabetes service from the viewpoint of children, young people, carers and clinicians? A synthesis of qualitative findings.

Background: There is mounting evidence that experience of care is a crucial part of the pathway for successful management of long-term conditions.

Design And Objectives: To carry out (1) a systematic mapping of qualitative evidence to inform selection of studies for the second stage of the review; and (2) a narrative synthesis addressing the question, What makes for a 'good' or a 'bad' paediatric diabetes service from the viewpoint of children, young people, carers and clinicians?

Results: The initial mapping identified 38 papers. From these, the findings of 20 diabetes-focused papers on the views on care of ≥650 children, parents and clinicians were synthesised.

A Qualitative Exploration of Patient and Clinician Views on Patient Reported Outcome Measures in Child Mental Health and Diabetes Services.

Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) are increasingly being recommended for use in both mental and physical health services. The present study is a qualitative exploration of the views of young people, mothers, and clinicians on PROMs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a sample of n = 10 participants (6 young people, 4 clinicians) from mental health services and n = 14 participants (4 young people, 7 mothers, 3 clinicians) from a diabetes service.