Jin Meiling, Choi Hanna
Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea.
Department of Nursing Science, Nambu University, Gwangju 62271, Korea.
Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Sep 30;10(10):1925. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10101925.
Children in hospitals endure a variety of stressful situations. Children feel friendly toward and have fun with robots. Care robots are considered to be an alternate technique to relieve stress after hospitalization. A mixed-methods study was conducted on caregivers to understand the ideal care robot. One hundred and fifty caregivers of pediatric patients participated in a quantitative online survey, and eleven participated in focus group interviews for qualitative analysis. Quantitative data underwent descriptive statistics. Content analysis was conducted for qualitative data. Regarding the overall awareness and necessity of a care robot, the caregivers thought it would help patients adapt to the hospital environment more quickly. The caregivers' preferred character-shaped robots of child height. For sound, they preferred an animated character's voice. For movement, they preferred the robot to roll on wheels. Regarding functions, medicine was the item for which they most wanted to use game elements. For the educational element, the caregivers wanted to teach children the reasons for and methods of medicine administration. Four themes were derived from the qualitative results. The findings are expected to contribute to the future development of care robots that can assist pediatric patients.
住院儿童会经历各种压力情境。儿童对机器人感到友好并能与之玩耍。护理机器人被认为是一种缓解住院后压力的替代技术。针对护理人员开展了一项混合方法研究，以了解理想的护理机器人。150名儿科患者的护理人员参与了定量在线调查，11人参与了焦点小组访谈以进行定性分析。对定量数据进行描述性统计。对定性数据进行内容分析。关于护理机器人的总体认知和必要性，护理人员认为它将有助于患者更快地适应医院环境。护理人员更喜欢儿童身高的拟人化机器人。对于声音，他们更喜欢动画角色的声音。对于移动，他们更喜欢机器人通过轮子滚动。关于功能，药物是他们最希望使用游戏元素的项目。对于教育元素，护理人员希望教孩子们用药的原因和方法。定性结果得出了四个主题。这些发现有望为未来辅助儿科患者的护理机器人的发展做出贡献。
