Improving early intervention and detection practices by primary care nurses for children who have undergone trauma
Dang, Dung; Ogunruku, Omolade; Sinchuri, Jyoti (2023)
Dang, Dung
Ogunruku, Omolade
Sinchuri, Jyoti
2023
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Childhood trauma is a pervasive and distressing issue that affects a large number of children and adolescents worldwide. Trauma can result to a range of mental health problems, including anxiety disorder, depression, anhedonia, dysfunctional attitudes, psychosis and event-stress. As the largest group of health care providers, nurses are in frequent contact with children and families, and as such, they have a unique opportunity to identi-fy and intervene early in child exposure to childhood trauma.
The aim of the review was to explore the early interventions and detection for children and adolescents who have gone through trauma, with a view to finding the best practices for primary care nurses. Scoping review was adopted for this literature review. The search was conducted on Pubmed and Cinahl from May-November 2023 and 11 articles were adopted for thematic analysis review.
The finding of this review can be viewed in two context. The first being how to improve early detection the includes visual cues, such as cuts, bruises, and lacerations; environmental cues, such as disorganized living environments and the prominent drawing of particular body parts; and biological markers, such as salivary biomarkers and language expressions suggestive of toxic stress. The second is improving early intervention which includes nurses working together with parents and children to engage in body movement activities will help improve brain function and decrease traumatic distress. Helping children feel better about themselves fosters healthier relationships, and primary care nurses can prevent traumatic incidents from recurring by helping to keep children out of risky circumstances.
Based on our findings, primary care nurses should be trained more on early ways to detect trauma in children using some specific signs and symptoms which the children might present such as physical body cuts, bruises, lacerations, etc., their body reactions or specific emphasis being made on their body parts and language ex-pressions which might suggest trauma. Also, they should offer and guide parents or caregivers on how to give gentle parenting care to children to have experienced trauma and collaborate together with other health care professionals to help keep children away from toxic environments to stop the reoccurance of traumatic experiences.
https://youtu.be/z_PEtXPxpwM
The aim of the review was to explore the early interventions and detection for children and adolescents who have gone through trauma, with a view to finding the best practices for primary care nurses. Scoping review was adopted for this literature review. The search was conducted on Pubmed and Cinahl from May-November 2023 and 11 articles were adopted for thematic analysis review.
The finding of this review can be viewed in two context. The first being how to improve early detection the includes visual cues, such as cuts, bruises, and lacerations; environmental cues, such as disorganized living environments and the prominent drawing of particular body parts; and biological markers, such as salivary biomarkers and language expressions suggestive of toxic stress. The second is improving early intervention which includes nurses working together with parents and children to engage in body movement activities will help improve brain function and decrease traumatic distress. Helping children feel better about themselves fosters healthier relationships, and primary care nurses can prevent traumatic incidents from recurring by helping to keep children out of risky circumstances.
Based on our findings, primary care nurses should be trained more on early ways to detect trauma in children using some specific signs and symptoms which the children might present such as physical body cuts, bruises, lacerations, etc., their body reactions or specific emphasis being made on their body parts and language ex-pressions which might suggest trauma. Also, they should offer and guide parents or caregivers on how to give gentle parenting care to children to have experienced trauma and collaborate together with other health care professionals to help keep children away from toxic environments to stop the reoccurance of traumatic experiences.
https://youtu.be/z_PEtXPxpwM