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  • Title: Parents' perceptions of chronic illness trajectories.
    Author: Burke SO, Kauffmann E, LaSalle J, Harrison MB, Wong C.
    Journal: Can J Nurs Res; 2000 Dec; 32(3):19-36. PubMed ID: 11928130.
    Abstract:
    The notion of a small, generic set of chronic illness trajectories that can be independent of specific medical diagnoses, though controversial, has some theoretical, clinical, and qualitative research support. The purpose of this study was to quantitatively describe trajectories among parents of children with a chronic condition. It was hypothesized that factor analysis would confirm 3 trajectories similar to those in the qualitative literature and that parents' perceptions of their child's trajectory would differ significantly from medically based perceptions. A total of 140 parents provided data on their perceptions of the past, present, and future course of the condition of their repeatedly hospitalized child. Fourteen time-related items from the Coping Health Inventory for Parents Questionnaire on Resources and Stress and the Parenting Stress Index were analyzed. Pre- and post-hospitalization factor analyses extracted the same 8 items to construct 3 trajectories: Life Threatening; Declining; and Stable, Optimistic. The views of approximately one third of the parents differed from medically based classifications. Type of nursing care had no bearing on the perceptions of the parents.
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