Hargreaves, D;
Sizmur, S;
Pitchforth, J;
Tallett, A;
Toomey, S;
Hopwood, B;
Schuster, M;
(2018)
Children and young people’s versus parents’ responses in an English national inpatient survey.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
, 103
(5)
pp. 486-491.
10.1136/archdischild-2017-313801.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Despite growing interest in children and young people’s (CYP) perspectives on healthcare, they continue to be excluded from many patient experience surveys. This study investigated the feasibility of, and additional information gained by, measuring CYP experiences of a recent hospital admission. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of national survey data. SETTING: Inpatients aged 8–15 years in eligible National Health Service hospitals, July–September 2014. PARTICIPANTS: 6204 parents/carers completed the parent section of the survey. The CYP section of the survey was completed by CYP themselves (n=3592), parents (n=849) or jointly (n=1763). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Pain relief, involvement, quality of staff communication, perceived safety, ward environment, overall experience. ANALYSES: Single-measures intraclass correlations (ICCs) were used to assess the concordance between CYP and parent responses about the same inpatient episode. Multilevel logistic regression models, adjusted for individual characteristics, were used to compare the odds of positive responses when the CYP section of the survey was completed by parents, by CYP themselves or jointly. RESULTS: The CYP section of the survey was completed independently by 57.8% of CYP. Agreement between CYP and parent responses was reasonably good for pain relief (ICC=0.61 (95% CI 0.58 to 0.63)) and overall experience (ICC=0.70 (95% CI 0.68 to 0.72)), but much lower for questions comparing professionals’ communication with CYP and with their parents (ICC range=0.28 (95% CI 0.24 to 0.32) to 0.51 (95% CI 0.47 to 0.54)). In the regression models, CYP were significantly less likely than parents to report feeling safe (adjusted OR (AOR)=0.54 (95% CI 0.38 to 0.76)), involvement in decisions (AOR=0.66 (95% CI 0.46 to 0.94)) or adequate privacy (AOR=0.68 (95% CI 0.52 to 0.89)). CONCLUSIONS: Including CYP (8–15 years) in patient experience surveys is feasible and enhances what is known from parents’ responses.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Children and young people’s versus parents’ responses in an English national inpatient survey |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313801 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-313801 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043270 |
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