The Lived Experience of Parents and Guardians Providing Care for Child Transplant Recipients

Abstract

In preparing parents and guardians to care for their children after discharge from the hospital, transplant teams need to be aware of differences between what we think we communicate and how it is interpreted by the parents and guardians, the relationships built between parents and guardians and health care teams, parents' attitudes and levels of stress, and the impact these factors have on care and the parents' and guardians' experience.