Parents Supportive Care Needs: One Day Service for Thalassemia Patients

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

parents, thalassemia, one day service

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the countries included in the thalassemia belt. A total of 4,710 people with thalassemia are individuals in the age group of less than 15 years. Thalassemia that occurs to children will affect the parents because children with thalassemia need regular blood transfusions throughout their life so that they will be repeatedly hospitalized. The ineffectiveness of health services can make parents absent from work, from social activities, and even have to stop working because they have to accompany the child in the hospital. This study aimed to explore deeply the supportive care needs of the parents of children with thalassemia. The research design was qualitative with a phenomenological approach. The semi-structured interview technique was carried out on five participants who had children with thalassemia. The theme finding obtained was one day service. Hospitals as health service providers are expected to be able to improve services provided especially one day service for people with thalassemia.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Murniati
AU  - Roro Lintang Suryani
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - Parents Supportive Care Needs: One Day Service for Thalassemia Patients
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 212
EP  - 214
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.047
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.047
ID  - 2020
ER  -