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Background: Parental involvement can assist health professionals in providing successful pain care for children. Effective interaction between parents and health professionals reduces the severity and impact of the child's pain.
Aim: To inductively generate a model of mother capacity for pain care (MCfPC) in a Saudi Arabian health care setting, where capacity is defined as mother influences and abilities in participatory childcare.
Methods: The researcher used a qualitative case study design, with semi-structured interview and observation methods, and analysis of hospital documentation of policy and procedure. Data were collected over three months, between September 10 and December 10, 2016, from mother (n = 20) and nurse (n = 21) participants. The study took place in a pediatric surgical ward at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, a Saudi Arabian surgical health care center. A thematic analysis was incorporated to analyze the data.
Findings: A model was generated showing three central themes and three subthemes impacting the MCfPC. The core themes included the hospital environment, the institutional organization, and socio-cultural conditions, with subthemes of comfort, communication, and support, respectively.
Conclusion: The hierarchical model determining MCfPC shows optimal health care practices to improve pain care.
Keywords: Pediatric, child health care, mother participation, family-centered care, capacity for care.
Learning Outcome: After completing this education activity, the learner will be able to describe the use of the mothers' capacity for pain care hierarchical model as a means for improving pain care through optimal health care practices.
Parental involvement in the care of hospitalized children is necessary for optimizing pain care (Melo et al., 2014; Twycross & Finley, 2013). Many studies have identified the significance of parental role in this regard, citing concerns, such as parental needs, actual parental management, and care activity, and possible barriers and facilitators (Lim et al., 2012; Melo et al., 2014). Providing conditions for parents to optimize pain care and develop postoperative management capacity of a hospitalized child is fundamental for improving parental participation (Broome, 2000; Chng et al., 2015). Caregiving capacity is critically related to mother participation. In the United States and internationally, mothers generally assume the primary role of caregiver for their hospitalized child and after discharge (Simons, 2015). However, several health care models focus on causal factors relating to patient care in terms...