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Exploring everyday experiences of adolescents living with asthma through Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory
Nursing Open, Vol.12(8), pp.1-9
2025
Abstract
Aim: To explore Taiwanese adolescents' experiences with asthma.
Design: Exploratory qualitative study using semi-structured face-to-face interviews, framed within Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory.
Methods: Data were collected until saturation was reached. The interviews focused on adolescents who experienced asthma during their developmental stages. Data were managed using NVivo V12 program.
Data Sources: This study was conducted at an outpatient paediatric clinic located within a tertiary teaching hospital (anonymised for review) in Taiwan.
Results: Seventeen Taiwanese adolescents with asthma were interviewed, resulting in the emergence of eight main themes: 'asthma exacerbation and its impacts’, ‘maintaining physical comfort’, ‘increased compliance with medication or treatment regimes’, ‘peer interactions’, ‘available resources at school’, ‘uncertainty’, ‘changes in social participation to manage symptoms’, and ‘conflicts in asthma care across different generations of family caregivers’.
Conclusion: Taiwanese adolescents with asthma experience regular disruptions to their social participation and school attendance. As a result, maintaining peer relationships may be challenging.
Implications for the Profession and/or Patient Care: Understanding the experiences of adolescents with asthma provides insights in optimising asthma care at home and school settings. Our findings highlight the importance of enabling teachers to respond appropriately to the needs of adolescents with asthma. A lack of understanding among teachers can aggravate adolescents' fear of embarrassment when using an inhaler in the presence of their peers. This may lead to reduced social interactions and feelings of isolation. To create a supportive environment, it is crucial to equip teachers and peers to recognise and respond to asthma symptoms.
Impact: This study addressed the lack of understanding of the developmental needs of Taiwanese adolescents with asthma. Adolescents' home and school environments impact asthma management. Families, teachers and healthcare professionals must consider the developmental experiences of adolescents living with asthma in order to provide appropriate care.
Reporting Method: COREQ was used.
Details
- Title
- Exploring everyday experiences of adolescents living with asthma through Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory
- Authors
- Tzu-Jung Tseng - Chang Gung University of Science and TechnologyJo Wu (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nursing
- Publication details
- Nursing Open, Vol.12(8), pp.1-9
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1002/nop2.70281
- ISSN
- 2054-1058
- Copyright note
- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial, and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2025 The Author(s). Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
- Data Availability
- Research data are not shared
- Grant note
- This study was supported by the Chang Gung Medical Foundation (CMRPF6J0011).
- Organisation Unit
- Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991142640102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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