Qualitative Interviews on Parental Roles in Pediatric Weight Rehabilitation

A qualitative study explores shifting perspectives on the role of parents in outpatient rehabilitation for children with higher body weight. The dataset contains interview and focus group transcripts from children, parents, and healthcare professionals, analyzed via framework analysis. It was authored by Lucia Schlottner and published under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze interview transcripts to identify themes on parental roles as motivators and role models in pediatric rehabilitation.
• Compare perspectives from children, parents, and professionals on themes of control and autonomy within the rehabilitation process.
• Extract insights on the transfer of therapeutic skills to daily life from qualitative interview data.

Strengths

• Data is derived from a controlled, two-arm, mixed-methods study evaluating outpatient rehabilitation program effectiveness.
• Includes perspectives from three distinct stakeholder groups: children, parents, and healthcare professionals.
• The qualitative analysis was conducted using the framework analysis method.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single 21.1 KB DOCX file, representing a very small qualitative text corpus.
• No structured tabular data or columns are provided, limiting quantitative or automated analysis.
• The sample size for interviews and focus groups is not specified, making generalizability unclear.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals and parents, and focus groups with children and adolescents.

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