Föräldrars upplevelser av att leva med ett barn med självskadebeteende : en litteraturbaserad studie med grund i analys av kvalitativ forskning

• Main Authors: Alfredsson, Johanna, Andersson, Sandra
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Högskolan Väst, Avd för vårdvetenskap på grundnivå 2015
• Subjects: Child; nursing; parent experience; self-harm and qualitative study
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-7408

Deliberate self-harm are a growing problem among young people in Sweden. It's not only the child that suffers from the behaviour, even the whole family. Parent´s need the right support from the healthcare staff for their own wellbeing, but also to be able to give good support for their child. Par-ent´s experiences are of importance for the nurse in the healthcare of the child and their families. The aim of this study was to describe parent´s experiences of living with a child with a deliberate self-harm behavior. In this literature study ten qualitative articles were analyzed using the method of Friberg (2012). Eight articles were found by a systematic search and two articles were found in an unsystematic search. This study showed four main themes and ten subthemes. Main themes were parent´s experience of support, parent´s experience of different feelings, parent´s experience of fam-ily relations and parent´s experience of parenting. Subthemes were to experience lack of support from healthcare staff, to need support from the environment, to feel guilt and shame, to feel concern and fear, to experience chock, to communicate with their child, to experience a different relation-ship in the family, to maintain trust in the relationship between parent and child, wanting to protect their child, to feel unsecure in their parenting. Conclusion were that parent´s need better support from the healthcare staff and from others in their environment. Nurses need more knowledge about parent´s experiences to be able to understand their needs and to be able to support them.