Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

CiteULike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references - click here to get started.

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Qualitative Health Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (1)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lassetter, J. H.
Right arrow Articles by Roper, S. O.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Lassetter, J. H.
Right arrow Articles by Roper, S. O.
Right arrowPubmed/NCBI databases
Medline Plus Health Information
*Down Syndrome
*Family Issues
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Family Photographs

Expressions of Parents Raising Children With Disabilities

Jane H. Lassetter

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Barbara L. Mandleco

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Susanne Olsen Roper

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to capture the everyday lives of parents raising a child with a disability. Fifteen parental dyads raising a child with Down syndrome, developmental disabilities, visual impairments, or speech disorders used a disposable camera to photograph images important to them. Interviews about these photographs reflected everyday life. Four themes emerged from content analysis of the photos: active activities, quiet activities, activities of daily living, and care of the child with a disability. Six themes emerged when discussing photographs participants would have liked to take but did not. These themes were acceptance, concern for the future, joys, struggles, balance of good and bad times, and normalcy. Findings support the usefulness of photography as a method of obtaining information from parents raising a child with a disability through qualitative means and provide nurses with a beginning understanding of these parents' lives.

Key Words: child with disability • photography

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, 456-467 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306298804
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Qual Health ResHome page
J. L. M. McCoyd
"I'm not a saint": Burden Assessment as an Unrecognized Factor in Prenatal Decision Making
Qual Health Res, November 1, 2008; 18(11): 1489 - 1500.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Journal of Family NursingHome page
T. B. Rampton, J. L. Rosemann, A. L. Latta, B. L. Mandleco, S. Olsen Roper, and T. T. Dyches
Images of Life: Siblings of Children With Down Syndrome
Journal of Family Nursing, November 1, 2007; 13(4): 420 - 442.
[Abstract] [PDF]