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[Participation in children's hospitals: approaches to participatory formats for paediatric patients]
Julia Bauer1,2,3, Holly Clark2, Michaela Coenen1,3
1Lehrstuhl für Public Health und Versorgungsforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Biometrie und Epidemiologie - IBE, München, Germany.
Insights
Children and young people have a right to participate in healthcare decisions. Developing sustainable participation formats in German pediatric settings is crucial for implementing these rights effectively.
Area of Science:
- Child Health
- Bioethics
- Health Services Research
Context:
- The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes children's participation in decisions affecting them, especially in healthcare.
- Established international models like Children's Councils and Young Person's Advisory Groups exist for patient participation.
- Germany currently lacks widespread, established formats for young patients' involvement in healthcare decisions and research.
Purpose:
- To highlight the importance of developing effective and sustainable participatory formats for young patients in Germany.
- To advocate for the creation of structures that enable meaningful involvement of children and adolescents in their healthcare.
- To bridge the gap between international best practices and the current situation in German pediatric healthcare.
Summary:
- Children and young people possess a right to participate in all decisions impacting them, particularly within pediatric healthcare settings.
- While international examples of patient participation exist, Germany needs to develop and implement similar structures.
- Suitable formats must be realistic for clinical and research settings, ensuring long-term sustainability and effectiveness.
Impact:
- Strengthening the consideration of children's rights within the German health system.
- Enhancing the quality of care and research by incorporating young patients' perspectives.
- Promoting the development, sustainable implementation, and evaluation of participatory formats for pediatric patients.
Abstract:
Based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children and young people have the right to participate in all matters and decisions that affect them. This applies in particular when they are patients in a children's hospital. In the international context, established formats for the participation of young patients regarding health issues already exist, for example "Children's Councils" or "Young Person's Advisory Groups". In Germany, such approaches are still mostly lacking. It thus remains important to develop suitable formats that enable meaningful and effective participation of young patients in the health system. These formats must be chosen in such a way that they can realistically be implemented in clinical settings as well as in pediatric research, and that they can be sustained in the long term. In order to strengthen the consideration of children's rights in the health system, the advancement of such participatory formats as well as their sustainable implementation and evaluation are desirable.
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