Caring for crying babies: A mixed-methods study to understand factors influencing nurses' and doctors' management of infant colic

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
James McGannValerie Sung

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the barriers and enablers influencing the uptake of two recommendations from a tertiary paediatric hospital's clinical practice guidelines by maternal and child health nurses (MCHNs) and emergency department (ED) doctors: (i) explaining normal crying; and (ii) avoiding attributing crying to gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) and limiting anti-reflux medication use. The study was designed as 1-h focus group discussions, guided by the Theoretical Domains Framework, and a short questionnaire, with a purposive sample of MCHNs and ED doctors in Victoria, Australia in (March to September) 2015. Analyses were conducted by inductive content analysis to identify key barriers and enablers. A total of 53 MCHNs and 25 ED doctors participated in 11 discussions. For explaining normal crying, key enablers were: adequate experience/competency, perceiving it was their role to explain and belief it prevented over-medicalisation. The main barriers were time restriction and beliefs about parents' perceptions. For MCHNs, key barriers to avoid attributing crying to GOR were: lack of knowledge and confusion around their role in diagnosing GOR. For ED doctors, key barriers to limiting anti-reflux medication were: pa...Continue Reading

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