Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the factor structure of nurses' recognition of the parenting provided by a family and to examine the associated factor, in the process of beginning life at home after considering home medical care provision for their child. Questionnaires on parenting were distributed to nurses who cared for a child and their family during the consideration and initiation phases of home medical care. Effective responses were collected from 258 nurses. Significant factors in the nurses' recognition of parenting were as follows: "parents' thoughts about the state of home medical care and their child," (Factor 1), "parents' understanding of their child's physical condition and work in the whole family," (Factor 2), "parents' sense of being a parent that they felt based on spending each day with their child,", (Factor 3), and "understanding and enforcement of home medical care considering the child and parent." (Factor 4). Nurses who work in children's homes or have had experience with patients' transitioning toward home, can well identify the parenting enacted by the family when they participate in transition-support workshops. These findings suggested that nurses should understand the lives of children who require home medical care as well as their families, and then reflect on it themselves.
