OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Child Health Care is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Telemedicine and patient satisfaction during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case–control study of outpatient pediatric urology patients	26
Relationship functioning and impact of health coverage models for parents of childhood cancer patients: A systematic review	23
Don’t judge a book by its cover: Exploring low self-reported distress and repressive coping in a pediatric chronic pain population	22
Family perceptions of prolonged hospitalization for children with complex chronic conditions: Between losses and adaptations in an uncertain future	16
Siblings of children with chronic disorders: Family and relational factors as predictors of mental health	16
‘I don’t want him to always be so far behind’: Parental perceptions of child independence in the context of extreme prematurity; a qualitative study	15
Multidisciplinary coordination of care for children with esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula	15
Effect of vibratory device on the time of administration of vaccines and on patient satisfaction measures	14
The efficacy of laughter-based interventions in children: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
The effect of M technique massage on behavioral state and weight gain in preterm neonates: A randomized controlled trial	11
Psychological wellbeing among parents of a child living with a serious chronic illness: A cross-sectional survey study	11
Intersection of food insecurity and moral experiences of those involved in paediatric healthcare: A scoping review of child, caregiver and healthcare provider perspectives	11
Incomplete immunization and associated factors among children 12–23 months in Aletawondo district, Sidama zone, South Ethiopia: Across-sectional study	11
Maintaining health-related quality of life and sense of belonging for pediatric patients with chronic illnesses by using a telepresence robot	10
Pediatric tracheostomy education redesign—Impact on length of stay at an academic pediatric center	10
Nurses assessment of development hip dysplasia: A scoping review	9
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency	9
Implementing health promotion interventions in a pediatric oncology setting: A qualitative study among families impacted by cancer and healthcare professionals	9
Why are we still doing sucrose trials for newborns?	8
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Preserving children’s undergraduate nurse education in the move towards genericism in nursing	8
Incidence of child maltreatment diagnosis in electronic health records of a large integrated healthcare system: 2001–2018	8
‘Managing an unexpected life - a caregiver’s career’: Parents’ experience of caring for their child with a non-malignant life-limiting condition	8
Sexual and reproductive health rights of Ukraine’s young sanctuary seekers: Can we pre-empt risks and uncertainty?	8
Child maltreatment and pediatric pain: A survey of healthcare professionals’ pain knowledge and pain management techniques	7
Holding and restraining children for clinical procedures: A scoping review of health professional reported and observed practice	7

Parental beliefs regarding adult and child motorcycle helmet-wearing practices in Vietnam	7
Stuck in transit: A qualitative study of the transitional care needs of young people with epilepsy and juvenile idiopathic arthritis	7
Acute pediatric cannabis intoxication: A scoping review	7
A pilot study to explore children’s experiences of intensive care post-cardiac arrest using art-based participatory methods	7
Association between free sugars intake and early psychopathological problems	6
Consequences of the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on child and adolescent mental, psychosocial, and physical health: A scoping review and interactive evidence map	6
Exploring predictors of parents’ negative emotional response to adolescents’ mental illness disclosures	6
Children and adolescents’ mental health in pandemics and confinement: A scoping review of vulnerability factors and repercussions	6
Tribalism in healthcare: See it. Stop it. Sorted.	6
Maternal autonomy and childhood undernutrition: Analysis of 2018 Nigeria demographic and health survey	6
Factors affecting pediatric nurses’ development of partnerships with parents of hospitalized children: An evaluation based on the stress-coping adaptation model	6
Elucidating children’s understanding of brachial plexus birth injury	6
Self-forgiveness as a professional value: Restoring integrity after clinical error	6
Home-like care: Collaboration between parents and nurses in everyday situations when children are hospitalized	5
Transitioning from paediatric to adult healthcare: Exploring the practices and experiences of care providers	5
Attitudes of health and social care professionals towards the use of blended diets for enteral tube feeding for children and young people	5
Hospitalized children experience: Play heroes to build bridges between hospital days and everyday life	5
Association between maternal socioeconomic status and breastfeeding: Results from the Japan environment and children’s study	5
Weight-biased attitudes about pediatric patients with obesity in Dutch healthcare professionals from seven different professions	5
A qualitative exploration of child, caregiver, and clinician perspectives on mental health in children with osteogenesis imperfecta	5
Risk mitigation strategies for children and young people admitted with mental health crisis to acute paediatric care: A systematic review with narrative synthesis	5
Exploring how ‘wish-granting’ interventions foster wellbeing for children with life-threatening health conditions and their families: A qualitative study	5
Using the capability, opportunity, and motivation model of behaviour to assess provider perception of implementing solution-focused goal-setting in paediatric rehabilitation	4
Cardiac rhythm devices in pediatric patients: Impact on family functioning and parent’s health-related quality of life	4
Working with children and young people in research: Supportive practices and pathways to impact	4
Mothers’ ability to determine and measure paracetamol doses for children—a contrived observational study	4
Pediatric clinicians’ perspectives on assessing concerns about young children’s social-emotional wellbeing in primary care	4
Changing bodies: A scoping review and thematic analysis of family experience during serious childhood illness	4
Childhood cancer survivors’ utilization of primary care provider services and barriers to primary care	4
Barriers to weight management in adolescence: Measure adaptation among adolescents presenting to an interdisciplinary weight management clinic	4
Sociodemographic differences in opioid use and recovery following ambulatory pediatric urologic procedures	4
Being the nurse for my child at home: A qualitative analysis of parental recognition, appraisal, and reactions to childhood cancer in Ghana	4
Developmental characteristics of young children in a low-income South African community	3
Odds stack up against children: Resolving to be part of the change for children’s health outcomes	3
I saw myself as an important piece of a jigsaw puzzle: Parents experiences of their child’s anaesthesia induction	3
Development of a framework for the collaborative adaptation of service models for child and family health in diverse settings (CASCADES)	3
“When I gave him the insulin injection, I felt the pain in my heart”: Experiences of parents of young children with type 1 diabetes in an Arab country	3
The imperative to develop health literacy: An ethical evaluation of HealthLit4Kids	3
Effects of comorbid asthma and eczema on child and family quality of life	3
Evaluation of paediatric palliative care ambulance plans: A retrospective study	3
The relationship between children’s food allergies and family mealtimes: A systematic review	3
Crossroads of parental decision making: Intersections of hope, communication, relationships, and emotions	3
Perspectives of children with physical disabilities, parents and physiotherapists on use of walkers and their potential to increase physical activity. A qualitative exploration	3
Vaccination programs for children aged up to 18 years in Europe, 2020	3
Triangle technique: An effective tool for improving nursing students’ ability to calculate safe pediatric medication dosages	3
Characterizing research partnerships in child health research: A scoping review	3
Enhancing father involvement by increasing flexibility: Meeting fathers halfway	3
The Cellie Coping Kit for children with Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes	3
Parental experiences of home phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia	2
Supportive use of digital technologies during transition to adult healthcare for young people with long-term conditions, focusing on Type 1 diabetes mellitus: A scoping review	2

A scoping review of the Choice and Partnership Approach in child and adolescent mental health services	2
Establishing priorities in child health: Giving parents and youth a voice	2
Effects of family-centered care on bonding: A systematic review	2
Postoperative bowel function in children operated for Hirschsprung’s disease in a low-income setting: Institution-based cross-sectional study	2
Adolescent self-harm: Parents’ experiences of supporting their child and help-seeking	2
Facilitators and barriers to adherence to medical recommendations among adolescents with cancer: A systematic review	2
Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a mental health drop-in centre for the siblings of young people attending a paediatric hospital	2
Goals of Morbidity and Mortality meetings in paediatric acute care. A qualitative case study	2
Pediatric primary care clinicians’ views on needs and challenges in caring for infants with intrauterine opioid exposure and their families	2
Mothers’ knowledge and practices on breastfeeding and complementary feeding in an urban slum area and rural area in Kenya: A cross-sectional interview study	2
‘They don’t know what to do with our children’: Experiences and views on feeding and swallowing from parents of children who use long-term ventilation	2
Exploring the implementation of child life services with facility dogs	2
Corrigendum to “The hospital safety scale for kids: Development of a new measurement tool for hospitalized children”	2
The health and well-being of children with medical complexity and their parents’ when admitted to inpatient care units: A scoping review	2
Adolescents’ perspectives and experiences of accessing general practitioner services: A systematic review	2
Mind the power gap: How hierarchical leadership in healthcare is a risk to patient safety	2
Evaluation of healthcare professionals’ experiences of taking telephone calls from parents of children with congenital heart disease. A risky business	2
Factors associated with transition readiness among adolescents and young adults with spina bifida in South Korea	2
Influence of parental anxiety and beliefs about medicines on feeding and exercise in children living with asthma	2
Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes regarding children’s pain assessment and management in Nepal	2
Emerging technologies’ role in reducing under-five mortality in a low-resource setting: Challenges and perceived opportunities by public health workers in Makonde District, Zimbabwe	2
Parenting interventions targeting early parenting difficulty: A scoping review	2
Barriers and facilitators to discussing parent mental health within child health care: Perspectives of parents raising a child with congenital heart disease	2
Experiences of siblings and parents of children with congenital heart disease and exploration of siblings’ support needs	2
Standards of care for pediatric clinical service delivery: A rapid scoping review	2
‘Provision of safety netting information during child health consultations; a systematic narrative review of caregivers’ perspectives’	2
Family-centred care research in paediatrics: A scoping review	2
Nurse leaders’ perceptions of organisational policies, guidelines, and practices that enact children and young people’s involvement in hospitals	2
Non-pharmacological interventions to reduce anxiety among children undergoing surgery: A systematic review	2
Developing the pediatric surgery patient satisfaction scale and assessment of its validity and reliability	1
Transgender and gender diverse youths’ experiences of healthcare: A systematic review of qualitative studies	1
Caregivers’ perspectives on the social and physical environmental factors associated with the play of their children with palliative care needs: A Q methodology study	1
An Australian survey of health professionals’ perceptions of use and usefulness of electronic medical records in hospitalised children’s pain care	1
Editorial: What matters morally for children receiving health care	1
‘A team around the child’ professionals’ experiences of unmet needs, access and expectations in children’s palliative care services, a phenomenological study in the UK	1
Agreement between parent-proxy and child self-report in pediatric hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome	1
COP27 climate change conference: Urgent action needed for Africa and the world	1
Factors associated with walking performance among adolescents undergoing cancer treatment: A correlational study	1
Feeling stretched: Parents’ narratives about challenges to resilience when their child has a tracheostomy	1
“Holding back my own emotions”: Evaluation of an online education module in pediatric end-of-life care	1
The association between learning disorders, motor function, and primitive reflexes in pre-school children: A systematic review	1
Effects of a cluster-randomized exercise intervention on cardiovascular health in preschoolers	1
Social-emotional and behavioural issues after very preterm birth: Parental and teachers experiences	1
Factors that support children and young people to express their views and to have them heard in healthcare: An inductive qualitative content analysis	1
‘Diagnosis, disclosure and stigma: The perspectives of Indonesian children with HIV and their families’	1
Prevalence and associating variables with fear of progression in Chinese pediatric cancer patients: A cross-sectional study	1
Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us	1
‘It’s my back…’; developing the coming to spinal clinic resource to improve the health literacy of young people with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and their parents	1
Effect of using client-accessible youth health records on experienced autonomy among parents and adolescents in preventive child healthcare and youth care: A mixed methods intervention study	1
Exploring implementation processes of a parent-targeted educational video for improving newborn pain treatment: A sequential exploratory mixed-methods study	1
Children’s experiences of stress and coping during hospitalization: A mixed-methods examination	1
Experiences of participation in activities among girls with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: A qualitative study	1
Parental decision-making for non-urgent emergency department presentations in Victoria, Australia	1
Safe care for premature babies at home: Parenting and stimulating development	1
Parent perspectives on family-centered follow-up after pediatric ECMO	1
Children’s and parents’ attitudes to and knowledge about HPV vaccination following a targeted information intervention	1
‘Do you feel well or unwell?’ A study on children’s experience of estimating their nausea using the digital tool PicPecc	1
Influence of spoken language and gender identity on healthcare experiences of transgender and non-binary youth living in Quebec, Canada	1
Effectiveness and safety of prophylactic phototherapy to prevent jaundice in premature newborns: Systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Acute paediatric inpatient care of children and young people admitted with self-harm or eating disorders: A single centre evaluation	1
Assessment of spontaneous movements of newborns on second or third day of life using computer-aided video analysis	1
Experiences and insights from parents of children with temporary feeding tubes	1
Having a heart-to-heart: Parents’ experiences preparing their child for a cardiac procedure	1
Parents’ views on and need for an intervention during their chronically ill child’s transfer to adult care	1