'It doesn't feel like our house anymore': The impact of medical technology upon life at home for families with a medically complex, technology-dependent child

Mitchell, Tracy Karen ORCID: 0000-0003-0014-8016, Bray, Lucy, Blake, Lucy, Dickinson, Annette and Carter, Bernie (2022) 'It doesn't feel like our house anymore': The impact of medical technology upon life at home for families with a medically complex, technology-dependent child. HEALTH & PLACE, 74. 102768-.

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Abstract

The study aimed to identify how medical technology impacts upon the home and life at home. Inductive auto-driven photo-elicitation or semi-structured interviews were conducted with technology-dependent children/young people (n = 2) and their family members (n = 15) from 10 families. Thematic analysis generated three themes: Altered physicality and look of the home; Altered sounds in the home; and 'It's worth it! Technology enables us to stay as a family'. Fundamentally, the detrimental impacts of living with medical technology were perceived as worth it as these enabled their child to be at home. Home was not home, and families were incomplete without their child at home.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Child, Adolescent, Young adult, Biomedical technology, Medical home, Photo-elicitation
Divisions:	Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	10 Mar 2022 16:47
Last Modified:	18 Jan 2023 21:11
DOI:	10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102768
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3150527