“Hope Amidst Uncertainty”- Parents’ Experiences During Their Children
Stayed in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Respiratory Failure: A Qualitative Phenomenology Study
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Title
“Hope Amidst Uncertainty”- Parents’ Experiences During Their Children
Stayed in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Respiratory Failure: A Qualitative Phenomenology Study
Stayed in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Respiratory Failure: A Qualitative Phenomenology Study
Subject
coping; guilt; hope; pain; stress; uncertainty
Description
Background: The hope of parents was vital, especially in the context of
children’s high risk of mortality due to respiratory failure.
Purpose: To discover how parents hoped with children who had respiratory
failure in pediatric intensive care unit of a general hospital located in
northeastern, Thailand.
Methods: This qualitative research method was based on Heideggerian
hermeneutic phenomenology. Participants were purposively chosen. A semi-
structured interview guide was used to keep focus during the interviews. The
12 participants were recruited by the principle of data saturation. Lifeworld’s
approach of van Manen concept used for data analysis. Lincoln and Guba’s
criteria were used in approaching trustworthiness.
Results: This study found 8 main themes: Lived body: 1) Blaming my
lateness, hopefully recovery. 2) Comforting myself, come to terms with the
truth (Tum jai). Lived space: 3) Floating in the dark, death was imminent,
hopefully hospital discharge. Lived Time: 4) Waiting was torturous, every
second counts. Lived relation: 5) Requiring humanized care. 6) Hoping holy
things help my child heal. Lived things: 7) Enduring excruciating pain with
life-saving devices. 8) Keeping a phone close at hand but not wanting to
hear its call.
Conclusion: Parents depended on hope as the way to cope with uncertainty
and the possibility of death. Nurses should support parents in coping with
guilt, uncertainty, and despair by fostering holistic approaches, humanized
care, enhanced communication, effective pain management and promoting
family centered care.
children’s high risk of mortality due to respiratory failure.
Purpose: To discover how parents hoped with children who had respiratory
failure in pediatric intensive care unit of a general hospital located in
northeastern, Thailand.
Methods: This qualitative research method was based on Heideggerian
hermeneutic phenomenology. Participants were purposively chosen. A semi-
structured interview guide was used to keep focus during the interviews. The
12 participants were recruited by the principle of data saturation. Lifeworld’s
approach of van Manen concept used for data analysis. Lincoln and Guba’s
criteria were used in approaching trustworthiness.
Results: This study found 8 main themes: Lived body: 1) Blaming my
lateness, hopefully recovery. 2) Comforting myself, come to terms with the
truth (Tum jai). Lived space: 3) Floating in the dark, death was imminent,
hopefully hospital discharge. Lived Time: 4) Waiting was torturous, every
second counts. Lived relation: 5) Requiring humanized care. 6) Hoping holy
things help my child heal. Lived things: 7) Enduring excruciating pain with
life-saving devices. 8) Keeping a phone close at hand but not wanting to
hear its call.
Conclusion: Parents depended on hope as the way to cope with uncertainty
and the possibility of death. Nurses should support parents in coping with
guilt, uncertainty, and despair by fostering holistic approaches, humanized
care, enhanced communication, effective pain management and promoting
family centered care.
Creator
Nisachon Sangsuk1
* , Watcharawan Wongkruasorn1 , Kanokwan
Pethsuwan2 , Jidapa Poogpan1
* , Watcharawan Wongkruasorn1 , Kanokwan
Pethsuwan2 , Jidapa Poogpan1
Source
http://jkp.fkep.unpad.ac.id/index.
php/jkp
php/jkp
Date
August 30, 2025
Contributor
peri irawan
Format
pdf
Language
english
Type
text
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Citation
Nisachon Sangsuk1
* , Watcharawan Wongkruasorn1 , Kanokwan
Pethsuwan2 , Jidapa Poogpan1, ““Hope Amidst Uncertainty”- Parents’ Experiences During Their Children
Stayed in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Respiratory Failure: A Qualitative Phenomenology Study,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 12, 2026, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/10810.
Stayed in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with Respiratory Failure: A Qualitative Phenomenology Study,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed February 12, 2026, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/10810.