Parent-Child Attachment: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis

A concept analysis of parent-infant attachment.

A concept analysis, the clarification of a concept, is the first step towards building the foundations of nursing theory, research and practice. As a relevant concept for nurses working with childbearing families, parent-infant attachment is an important part of the body of nursing knowledge. Wilson's method of concept analysis was used to generate antecedents, critical attributes and consequen...

Child-parent attachment following early institutional deprivation.

Child-parent attachment quality with an adoptive caregiver at age 4 years was examined in a sample of 111 children adopted into the United Kingdom following early severe deprivation in Romania and a comparison group of 52 nondeprived within-United Kingdom adoptees. Findings indicated that, compared with nondeprived adoptees, children who experienced early severe deprivation were less likely to ...

A SECURE BASE Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development

Enhancing methodological clarity: principle-based concept analysis.

AIMS The aim of this paper is to operationalize the principle-based method of concept analysis. BACKGROUND While nursing has embraced the use of concept analysis as a valid and significant entree into an area of research, methodological development has created strategies of inquiry that vary in purpose and in the nature of their findings. DISCUSSION We propose that, as the primary utility o...

System based practice: a concept analysis

Introduction: Systems-Based Practice (SBP) is one of the sixcompetencies introduced by the ACGME for physicians toprovide high quality of care and also the most challenging of themin performance, training, and evaluation of medical students.This concept analysis clarifies the concept of SBP by identifyingits components to make it possible to differentiate it from othersimilar concepts. For prop...