ERIC Number: EJ1453846
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: EISSN-2631-9179
Available Date: N/A
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Education Support Programs for Hospitalized Students with Chronic Health Conditions: Protocol for a Feasibility Study of a Controlled Trial
Tony Barnett; Sharon Goldfeld; Margaret Kelaher
Continuity in Education, v1 n1 p126-135 2020
Chronic health conditions in children and young people can have a significant impact on their ability to maintain engagement in school, education, and learning. While this functional limitation affects only about 1.6% of all children and young people, the absolute number is not inconsequential. In Australia, for example, the number is in the order of 67,000 children and young people. Furthermore, research has shown that this group of young learners are at increased risk of lower academic, social, and emotional and quality of life outcomes than their healthy peers, both in the short and the longer term. For this reason, most pediatric hospitals in western developed countries have hospital-based schools that aim to prevent children and young people with a chronic health condition from disengaging from school, education, and learning. However, there is a lack of robust evidence of the effectiveness of these education support programs. This protocol for a feasibility study of the effectiveness of evaluating an education support program in Australia aims to identify a priori the methodological key features of a robust trial, including developing an answerable research question, choosing a controlled study design that compares the outcomes of both an intervention group and a well-matched non-intervention or control group, eligibility criteria, important and validated outcome measures such as quality of life, and how statistical data should be analyzed and reported. Lessons learned from the proposed feasibility study will be used to inform a larger-scale study.
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Hospitalized Children, Special Schools, Access to Education, Program Effectiveness, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries, Feasibility Studies, Quality of Life, Recruitment, Stakeholders, Attitudes, Student Participation, Children, Adolescents
Ubiquity Press. Ubiquity Press Ltd, Unit 3N, 6 Osborn Street, London, E1 6TD, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)2073230343; e-mail: editorial@ubiquitypress.com; Web site: https://www.ubiquitypress.com/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Australia
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: N/A