A qualitative study on the influencing factors of parents′ participation in emotional management of adolescents with affective disorder / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To understand the barriers and facilitators to parental involvement in emotionally disturbed adolescents′ emotion management and to provide a basis for healthcare professionals to develop interventions for parental involvement in emotionally disturbed adolescents′ emotion management.Methods:Use of purposive sampling method from July to December 2021, 16 face-to-face semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with fathers or mothers of adolescents with affective disorders from the Third Hospital of Daqing City, and the data were analyzed using the Colaizzi 7-step analysis method.Results:Refining the theme from two aspects, one was the hindering factors: parents′ own factors including lack of knowledge about the disease, little time for companionship, poor emotional control, inappropriate communication style, and poor couple relationship; the child′s own factors including pathological factors, personality; environmental factors including academic stress, interpersonal relationships; economic factors including high cost of treatment, life stress. The other was the facilitating factors: support from others including family support, professional help; positive coping including finding coping strategies, change of mindset.Conclusions:Healthcare professionals should pay attention to these influencing factors and construct a program for parental involvement in emotionally disturbed adolescents′ emotion management from various aspects, so that parents can actively participate in their children′s emotion management and promote the rehabilitation of emotionally disturbed adolescents.