TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncovering psychosocial needs : perspectives of Australian child and family health nurses in a sustained home visiting trial
AU - Kardamanidis, Katina
AU - Kemp, Lynn
AU - Schmied, Virginia
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The first Australian trial of sustained nurse home visiting provided an opportunity to explore nurses' understanding of the situations that support mothers of infants to disclose personal and sensitive psychosocial information. Using a qualitative descriptive design, semi-structured interviews were conducted and transcripts were analysed drawing upon aspects of Smith's interpretative phenomenological analysis. Five themes pertaining to the experience of relationship building to foster disclosure of sensitive information emerged: (1) building trust is an ongoing process of giving and giving in return, (2) being ‘actively passive’ to develop trust, (3) the client is in control of the trust-relationship, (4) the association between disclosure of sensitive issues and a trust-relationship, and (5) empowerment over disclosure. This study provides a deeper understanding of how child and family health nurses develop relationships that lead women to entrust the nurse with personal, sensitive information, and may inform the practice of psychosocial needs assessment in other contexts.
AB - The first Australian trial of sustained nurse home visiting provided an opportunity to explore nurses' understanding of the situations that support mothers of infants to disclose personal and sensitive psychosocial information. Using a qualitative descriptive design, semi-structured interviews were conducted and transcripts were analysed drawing upon aspects of Smith's interpretative phenomenological analysis. Five themes pertaining to the experience of relationship building to foster disclosure of sensitive information emerged: (1) building trust is an ongoing process of giving and giving in return, (2) being ‘actively passive’ to develop trust, (3) the client is in control of the trust-relationship, (4) the association between disclosure of sensitive issues and a trust-relationship, and (5) empowerment over disclosure. This study provides a deeper understanding of how child and family health nurses develop relationships that lead women to entrust the nurse with personal, sensitive information, and may inform the practice of psychosocial needs assessment in other contexts.
KW - disclosure of information
KW - family nursing
KW - home nursing
KW - home visit
KW - nurse-patient relations
KW - nurses
KW - pediatric nursing
KW - psychological aspects
KW - trust
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/501413
UR - http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=f9a53ff9-5335-41a3-9b9d-d5ec7e7cfd82%40sessionmgr14&vid=4&hid=119
U2 - 10.5172/conu.33.1.50
DO - 10.5172/conu.33.1.50
M3 - Article
SN - 1037-6178
VL - 33
SP - 50
EP - 58
JO - Contemporary Nurse
JF - Contemporary Nurse
IS - 1
ER -