A Qualitative Inquiry of Taiwanese Children's Pain Experiences

Abstract

The research proposal is about the utilization of semi-structured converstions in order to get knowledge about the pain experiences of children in Taiwan, through interviews with about a 90 hospitalized children with acute pain who were around 5-14 year-old. The data was anaylsed using Krippendorff's content to get results on the definition of pain, pain in the nature of the past experience of pain, expected pain, pain acceptance, pain due to significance of the seven theme concept.

Table of Contents

Abstract1

Research Problem3

Research Questions & Variables3

Literature Review3

Theoretical Framework5

Methodology5

Type Of Design5

Data Collection Method5

Data analysis6

Conclusion & Recommendations6

References8

A Qualitative Inquiry of Taiwanese Children's Pain Experiences

Research Problem

As pain is totally shaped as per culture, health care providers should not see that the pain of Taiwanese children is just like that of the children in the US. Hence, a qualitative descriptive study with semi-structured interview was conducted of 90 hospitalized Taiwanese children with acute pain in order to understand their pain experiences.

Research Questions & Variables

The interview was based on seven themes that helped analyze and study the pain experiences of hospitalized Taiwanese children. Variables that were used were fixed as in to obtain data that is reliable and has justification of being from reliable sources and also for obtaining the right information which was required to understand the problem. The questions asked were on:

What is the definition of pain?

How do they analyze the quality of pain?

What are previous pain experiences ever had?

What is the pain expectation?

What is the pain acceptance?

What are the causes of pain ?

What is the meaning of pain?

Literature Review

In the region of southern Taiwan, parents make their children understand and learn not to take out any sort of sound or voice when they cry. Children are given a lesson that if they would cry with any sort of sound that would not be much more appropriate. What they are permitted of are only express themselves through tears and not make a single sound. Hence, for children from Taiwanese culture, crying is do with the expressions of the face, not anything to do with vocal sounds. In the research study it was not asked in detail during when conducting the interview with children that what was crying for them and how would they actually describe it expressing it that it is a way of telling and communicating that the child is in immense pain (Reid, 2008).

What was taken out of the study was that the terms“It hurts” or “it hurts a lot”were the leading explanations for the pain and its quality for almost all children in every single age group. Nevertheless, those children who belonged to the middle group usually employed other explanations for expressing the quality of pain like facial expression. It was seen that the responses obtained from children who were from the oldest age group were diverse and way above than those of the youngest children. Also those children who belonged to the oldest age group were more often seen to have incorporated uneasiness, facial ...