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'Just knowing' and the challenges of giving medicines to children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities: A hermeneutic inquiry.

Accessible summary: I asked mothers to speak to me about their experience of giving medicines to their child with severe and profound intellectual disabilities.Mothers told me their instincts often tell them how their child is and they also talked about the challenges in giving medicines every day.T...

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Published in:British Journal of Learning Disabilities Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 3 - 13
Main Author: Doyle, Carmel
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2021
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        au: Doyle, Carmel
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          Intellectual Disability In Infancy and Childhood
          Drug Administration Methods
          Mothers Psychosocial Factors
          Human
          Child
          Female
          Male
          Phenomenological Research
          Purposive Sample
          Diaries
          Interviews
          Thematic Analysis
          Child: 6-12 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: Accessible summary: I asked mothers to speak to me about their experience of giving medicines to their child with severe and profound intellectual disabilities.Mothers told me their instincts often tell them how their child is and they also talked about the challenges in giving medicines every day.The findings from this study show how important it is that professionals understand how difficult it can be.It is essential that we support mothers to "give medicines." Background: Children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities experience multiple chronic health conditions requiring a variety of medications. The aim of this study was to explore mothers' lived experience of giving medicines to children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities. Materials and Methods: A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was adopted with a purposeful sample of 15 mothers adopted. Face‐to‐face interviews and participant diaries were utilised for data collection. Results: Themes were identified with one being that of "lived body" exploring how mothers "just know" or use their instincts and also the challenges they encountered in daily life when giving medicines. Conclusions: This paper provides insight into the complexity of giving medicines to children with severe and profound intellectual disabilities and the level of support required by mothers.
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