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Author(s)
Stavros Stavrou, Loukia Demetriou
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2021.02.005
Affiliation(s)
Frederick University, Limassol, Cyprus
ABSTRACT
Many
children with chronic diseases attend regular classes in public elementary schools,
and their various needs are becoming a great challenge for the school and the educational
system. Parents and teachers have the care giving responsibility for these children,
but they do not always have the support or the means to meet those needs. Therefore,
the school faces significant difficulties in responding to the challenge of attending
to students with chronic diseases. This study’s purpose is to assess, through an
exploratory approach, the opinions of parents and teachers regarding what they consider
to be the basic needs of the school to improve its response to the challenge of
chronic diseases. Our methodology is qualitative, and we conducted interviews with
28 parents and teachers during the school year 2019-2020. We analyzed our data by
applying the Thematic Content Analysis method. According to our findings, parents
and teachers believe that if the teachers receive proper training on chronic diseases
and specialists are integrated into schools, the response to the challenge will
improve dramatically.
KEYWORDS
Counseling, Chronic diseases, Education, Elementary school, Parents, Teachers
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