Caregiver experiences, contextualizations and understandings of the burn injury to their child. Accounts from low-income settings in South Africa

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 236-245

  Van Niekerk, Ashley ^a,b   Seedat, M ^b   Menckel, E ^a   Laflamme, L ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Caregiver experiences; Childhood burns; Understandings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIO RECORDING; BURN; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; BURNS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; POVERTY AREAS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 34247099284     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: 13652214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2006.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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