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Child health
Parents’ decisional characteristics and preference in decision-making for their child with heart disease
  1. Heeyeon Son
  1. The University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Nursing, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Heeyeon Son; hson4{at}tennessee.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103745

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    Commentary on: Tadros HJ, Saidi A, Rawlinson AR, et al. Assessment of parental decision making in congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy and heart transplantation: an observational study analysing decisional characteristics and preferences. Arch Dis Child. 2023;108(8):641-646. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-324373. Epub 2023 Feb 2.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Healthcare providers need to understand that parents generally prefer equal influence on decision-making (DM) between medical teams and parents when caring for children with heart disease (HD).

    • Future mixed-method design studies, involving qualitative interviews, would increase our understanding of the parents’ preference in DM and the influencing factors.

    Context

    Shared DM (SDM) is a universally accepted patient-centred component in the healthcare system and it is defined as a collaborative DM process among the patient and/or significant others and the healthcare professionals.1 In paediatrics, parents are invited to make decisions for their ill child. There are numerous factors affecting parents’ preference of SDM and parents have shown …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.