Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community
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J Child Health Care · Dec 2006
'It's okay, it helps me to breathe': the experience of home ventilation from a child's perspective.
There are few studies that focus on children's subjective responses to home ventilation and how this in turn affects their daily lives. This multiple case study explored the experience of home ventilation from the children's perspective. Data were collected from five children through observation and audiotaped interviews. ⋯ Other themes included the medicalization of childhood, being a child and hopes for the future. Unlike other study findings to date, the children in this study concluded that the technology was only one small part of their lives. Nurses must ensure that these children have an opportunity to communicate their perspectives, in order to provide care that is clinically effective and child-centered.