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Nursing Education 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 21
April 23-25, 2018
Rome, Italy
27th Edition of World Congress on
Nursing Education &
Research
T his study explores the views and experiences of teenage
parents as service users of universal child and family
health care services. The focus of this study was to reveal
lived experience from the emic perspective. For this purpose
interpretive hermeneutical phenomenology underpinned by
Martin Heidegger’s philosophical perspective was utilized.
Thus, this study’s phenomenological focus emphasized
the explication of ‘Being’, in this instance ‘being a teenage
parent service user’ and the exploration of that existence.
The thematic analysis of the data revealed phenomenological
findings represented in themes and subthemes of the
phenomenon of both being a teenage parent service user of
universal child and family health care services and of being in
the world of the teenage parent. These themes included; being
in the world of the teenage parent, being supported and helped
and encounters with service entities as a service user. In the
context of presenting these findings ‘world’ in this instance
was viewed from the ontological perspective of being a
teenage parent service user. Following the initial explication of
the phenomenological findings it was evident that participants’
existence was impacted by other people, processes and
structures within their world. From these viewpoint critical
realist principles using Derek Layder theory of social domains
to explicate the causative mechanisms within social life that
shaped the lived experience of being a teenage parent service
user.The culmination of utilizing both phenomenological and
critical realist approach facilitated the explication of lived
experience within the social context. The conceptualization of
being a teenage parent service user revealed existence shaped
by ideological social norms of the teenage parent. These
understandings served to shape the personal and social sense
of self contributing to the sense of difference, stigma and
othering experienced. The negotiation of social milieu at the
personal, interactional and contextual level revealed a struggle
for participants in challenging the effects of social norms.
This negotiation revealed the experience of being a teenage
parent service user as dependent on how others in their world
viewed them. It reveals the inherent power of others to shape
the teenage parents’ existence. It reveals the struggle teenage
parents have to strive toward future goals and ambitions
drawing on both material and cultural resources that facilitate
these goals.
Biography
Marcella Kelly is a Programme Director for Postgraduate Diploma in Nurs-
ing, Public Health Nursing and she did her PhD with Child and Family Re-
search Centre, NUI, Galway, Teenage Parents as Service Users of Child and
Family Health Care Services. She did her MSc Nurse Education in University
College Dublin. She is the Registered Nurse Tutor, Registered Public Health
Nurse, Registered Health Visitor (UK), Registered Midwife and Registered
General Nurse. Her research interest includes Child Health and Well Being.
Exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents
as service users of universal child and family health care
services in the Irish context
Marcella Kelly
National University of Ireland, Galway
Marcella Kelly, J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-002