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<sec><h3>Background</h3>
<p>Digital solutions have been reported to provide positive psychological and social outcomes to childhood critical illness survivors, a group with an increased risk for long-term adverse psychosocial effects.</p>
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<sec><h3>Objective</h3>
<p>To explore health professionals’ perspectives on the potential of digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors.</p>
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<sec><h3>Methods</h3>
<p>Using a qualitative approach, expert interviews with six health professionals working at a Norwegian hospital were conducted. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis framework. Concurrent data collection and analysis using inductive coding was also employed, and a model of codes was constructed.</p>
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<sec><h3>Results</h3>
<p>The interview yielded thirteen unique codes regarding the health professionals’ perspectives on the potential for digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors, organized in a model comprising the two main themes: <italic>Affecting Factors</italic> and <italic>Digital Usage</italic>. Demographic factors (the child’s medical condition, age, gender, and residence) and environmental factors (the child’s family and health professionals) tended to affect the current psychosocial follow-up. Hospital limitations concerning a lack of digital solutions, worse relationship building with video communication, and children’s already high screen time reflected the current state of digital usage. However, ongoing digitalization, existing successful digital solutions, children’s good digital skills, and an ongoing process of creating an artifact are also seen as opportunities for digital usage in future psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors.</p>
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<sec><h3>Conclusions</h3>
<p>Researchers can build further on these findings to investigate the potential of digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors, and clinicians can use it as a starting point for improving psychosocial follow-up.</p>
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Background
Digital solutions have been reported to provide positive psychological and social outcomes to childhood critical illness survivors, a group with an increased risk for long-term adverse psychosocial effects.

Objective
To explore health professionals’ perspectives on the potential of digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors.

Methods
Using a qualitative approach, expert interviews with six health professionals working at a Norwegian hospital were conducted. Transcribed interviews were analyzed using Braun and Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis framework. Concurrent data collection and analysis using inductive coding was also employed, and a model of codes was constructed.

Results
The interview yielded thirteen unique codes regarding the health professionals’ perspectives on the potential for digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors, organized in a model comprising the two main themes: Affecting Factors and Digital Usage. Demographic factors (the child’s medical condition, age, gender, and residence) and environmental factors (the child’s family and health professionals) tended to affect the current psychosocial follow-up. Hospital limitations concerning a lack of digital solutions, worse relationship building with video communication, and children’s already high screen time reflected the current state of digital usage. However, ongoing digitalization, existing successful digital solutions, children’s good digital skills, and an ongoing process of creating an artifact are also seen as opportunities for digital usage in future psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors.

Conclusions
Researchers can build further on these findings to investigate the potential of digital psychosocial follow-up for childhood critical illness survivors, and clinicians can use it as a starting point for improving psychosocial follow-up.

Digital Psychosocial Follow-up for Childhood Critical Illness Survivors: A Qualitative Interview Study on Health Professionals’ Perspectives

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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Background
Digital solutions have been reported to provide positive psychological and social outcomes to childhood critical illness survivors, a group with an...

Digital Psychosocial Follow-up for Childhood Critical Illness Survivors: A Qualitative Interview Study on Health Professionals’ Perspectives

Article Category: Research Article

Online veröffentlicht: 18. Juli 2024

Seitenbereich: 50 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2024-0006

Schlüsselwörter
Childhood Critical Illness, Long-term Follow-up Care, Psychosocial, Digitalization, Expert Interview

© 2024 Marte Hoff Hagen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Digital Psychosocial Follow-up for Childhood Critical Illness Survivors: A Qualitative Interview Study on Health Professionals’ Perspectives

Article Category: Research Article

Online veröffentlicht: 18. Juli 2024

Seitenbereich: 50 - 62

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjcapp-2024-0006

SchlüsselwörterChildhood Critical Illness, Long-term Follow-up Care, Psychosocial, Digitalization, Expert Interview

© 2024 Marte Hoff Hagen et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Schlüsselwörter
Childhood Critical Illness, Long-term Follow-up Care, Psychosocial, Digitalization, Expert Interview