A model to assist psychiatric nurses in facilitating support of parents who are caring for an adolescent with a mental disorder.
Hendrietta Vorster-Mbontsi, Nompumelelo Ndlovu, Annie Temane
PMID 41773413WHAT IT FOUND
Parents of adolescents admitted to a psychiatric unit described grief and anxiety and said services gave little guidance.
Psychiatric nurses have an expert-evaluated three-phase model to structure support, but it was not tested.
Key findings
01Parents described being caught between grief for their adolescent's former self and anxiety about the future.
02Parents said the healthcare system failed to provide adequate guidance, information and support.
03The model describes three phases for psychiatric nurses to facilitate parent support, but the study did not address its implementation or evaluate its implementation.
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What it does not show
The qualitative interviews included only 10 English-speaking parents with phone access from one public psychiatric unit in Gauteng, so the themes may not transfer to other settings or caregivers. Each parent was interviewed once, with no repeat interviews, and saturation was confirmed after the sixth interview plus four additional interviews. The concept analysis relied on prior dissertation findings, and the paper did not address implementation or evaluate implementation. Expert panel evaluation assessed the model's clarity, simplicity, generality, accessibility and importance, not its clinical effectiveness. No adolescents or nurses were interviewed in the empirical phase; only parents of admitted adolescents provided data.
Declared interests
The work was funded by a University of Johannesburg supervisor-linked bursary and the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority. The supplied text does not report a conflicts-of-interest declaration.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the expert evaluation as proof that the model helps parents or adolescents. The paper did not address implementation or evaluate implementation.