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by: abovethetreetop Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 11:56am  
Question for parents,Let's say you have a child with a difficult to manage condition or disease. Your child comes home with a short, COMPLETELY  anonymous survey to see how if you understood about  management and treatment of the disease/condition. The results do not go to the school,(they would not be able to read the results) but a nursing student  who will use the information to come up with an pamphlet based on the information to help parents better understand disease and treatment. The schools did not allow the survey. Do you think they were right not to allow it, or would you have appreciated the survey? Thanks for any input. :-) 4951
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Ally Active Indicator LED Icon 2
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:10pm  
If the school did not allow the survey, why did they send it home with the children? 4951
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Okiedokie Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:12pm  
If the school did not allow the survey, why did they send it home with the children?
 
@Ally: I think you need more coffee EmoticonThe OP is asking if the school should have sent it home.  The school said no
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:13pm  
Their trying to gather information about your family that is not only NOT their business its no ones, throw survey away. Its just another tracking for future data.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:15pm  
Let's say you have a child with a difficult to manage condition or disease. Your child comes home with a short, COMPLETELY anonymous survey to see how if you understood about management and treatment of the disease/condition. The results do not go to the school,(they would not be able to read the results) but a nursing student who will use the information to come up with an pamphlet based on the information to help parents better understand disease and treatment. The schools did not allow the survey. Do you think they were right not to allow it, or would you have appreciated the survey? Thanks for any input. :-)
 
@abovethetreetop: The survey would have to go out to every child-not just the ones with a "condition."
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Burnsway Active Indicator LED Icon 13
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:16pm  
Im actually proud the schools rejected it. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:18pm  
Im actually proud the schools rejected it.
 
@Burnsway: Me too Emoticon
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:22pm  

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>> If the school did not allow the survey, why did they send it home with the children?
 
@Ally: I think you need more coffee EmoticonThe OP is asking if the school should have sent it home.  The school said no
 
@Okiedokie: Oooh, ok...sheesh, no sleep in about a week does that to a person.
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:25pm  
The school probably has a policy against surveys in general and that would include all of them regardless of topic... 4951
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abovethetreetop Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:29pm  
Let me elaborate,The survey was about asthma. It can be confusing/ difficult to manage (coming from experience). As a parent, you don't always get (have) all the info you need. Statistics show that it is the most common childhood disease and thousands of kids end up in ER's and miss school because of asthma. So, if your child has asthma, your school would already know this. They would not be able to read the results and the info is 100% anonymous/ confidential. There is NO tracking involved. Everyone would in time receive a pamphlet (whether they participated in the survey or not) that would have useful info regarding the disease. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:33pm  
As a parent, you don't always get (have) all the info you need. Statistics show that it is the most common childhood disease and thousands of kids end up in ER's and miss school because of asthma. So, if your child has asthma, your school would already know this. They would not be able to read the results and the info is 100% anonymous/ confidential. There is NO tracking involved. Everyone would in time receive a pamphlet (whether they participated in the survey or not) that would have useful info regarding the disease.
 
@abovethetreetop: The point is, the other students, parents, etc don't know.  Yes, the school has to know-for privacy purposes, no one else does.  Again, would it go out to every student or just the asthmatics?
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 12:33pm  
abovethetreetopIm assuming YOU are the one or work for someone that wants to do the survey. Mail them, stand on the corner, whatever but dont use the schools.Its IMO that Medical personnel now work for government as the schools do and I want as little of my family info as possible going to either institution.If my child has "any" condition and I needed to learn more and research our best path of treatment I would use google, internet, library, word of mouth and personal interviews with my doctor to make my decisions. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 1:02pm  
abovethetreetopIm assuming YOU are the one or work for someone that wants to do the surveythe survey. Mail them, stand on the corner, whatever but dont use the schools.Its IMO that Medical personnel now work for government as the schools do and I want as little of my family info as possible going to either institution.If my child has "any" condition and I needed to learn more and research our best path of treatment I would use google, internet, library, word of mouth and personal interviews with my doctor to make my decisions.
 
@Burnsway: I can appreciate your view. I am a nursing student. I do not work for or have any affiliations with any companies. This was strictly for a project that I was working on. Also, the surveythe survey would have reached  some underprivileged children's parent(s) who may not have access to the internet/ time to research or adequate health coverage. As a nursing student and having additional resources available to me (medical books, etc) I have come across info that I didn't know. ( I do have the internet, health coverage, etc but as I mentioned asthma is difficult to manage). I came up with this surveysurvey in an effort to argue that more help is needed for parents (and their children).Let me share the results of a study done in a hospital where children were admitted to the hospital with asthma problems. Group A received educationeducation to help better manage their child's asthma group B didn't. Following the intervention, there were less hospitalizations in the following two years of the kids in group A vs group B.Any information is always helpful and that was my intention.
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 1:15pm  
I can appreciate your view. I am a nursing student. I do not work for or have any affiliations with any companies. This was strictly for a project that I was working on. Also, the surveythe survey would have reached some underprivileged children's parent(s) who may not have access to the internet/ time to research or adequate health coverage.
As a nursing student and having additional resources available to me (medical books, etc) I have come across info that I didn't know. ( I do have the internet, health coverage, etc but as I mentioned asthma is difficult to manage). I came up with this surveysurvey in an effort to argue that more help is needed for parents (and their children).
 
Let me share the results of a study done in a hospital where children were admitted to the hospital with asthma problems. Group A received educationeducation to help better manage their child's asthma group B didn't. Following the intervention, there were less hospitalizations in the following two years of the kids in group A vs group B.
 
Any information is always helpful and that was my intention.
 
@abovethetreetop: Let me share my story:My dd has many health conditions,  Two of them being asthma and seizures.  From the outside looking in, she seems like a normal little girl.  You send that survey home and suddenly, everyone knows she has issues.  I have been there before when parents have found out my child is different.  They take their kids and turn the other way.  Kids who once were friends, suddenly aren't. Nothing is really anonymous these days.  I applaud you for what you are trying to do, but you may be going about it the wrong way.  The school nurse gave all teachers and staff who would be in contact with my dd instructions and info about seizures and what to do if she started having them.  Maybe you could contact the under privilege schools and offer to the same only on a whole school level.
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~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 1:17pm  
abovethetreetopIm assuming YOU are the one or work for someone that wants to do the survey. Mail them, stand on the corner, whatever but dont use the schools.Its IMO that Medical personnel now work for government as the schools do and I want as little of my family info as possible going to either institution.If my child has "any" condition and I needed to learn more and research our best path of treatment I would use google, internet, library, word of mouth and personal interviews with my doctor to make my decisions.
 
@Burnsway: totally agree. Nothing ticks me off more that to recieve info in the mail on how to manage my, my dh's and my ds' health from our health insurance plan.What really really ticks me off is now I've started receiving crap notifying me that it's time to schedule Doc appointments to check in or get blood panels done to help monitor our conditions!!! Our doc informed my dh at his physical that she is required by law of the recent healthcare reform to provide the insurance companies info about her paitients- things like BP, BMI, smoking ect. That information could be used to then provide the patient info on his/her "condition" and to possibly raise premiums. So yeah I don't like sharing my personal info with anyone anymore!
I keep myself totally informed about our health and have actually refused certain treatments because he risk outweighed benefit. Sometimes less is more
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abovethetreetop Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 9 years ago   Apr 13, '14 1:18pm  

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>> As a parent, you don't always get (have) all the info you need. Statistics show that it is the most common childhood disease and thousands of kids end up in ER's and miss school because of asthma. So, if your child has asthma, your school would already know this. They would not be able to read the results and the info is 100% anonymous/ confidential. There is NO tracking involved. Everyone would in time receive a pamphlet (whether they participated in the surveythe survey or not) that would have useful info regarding the disease.
 
@abovethetreetop: The point is, the other studentsstudents, parents, etc don't know.  Yes, the school has to know-for privacy purposes, no one else does.  Again, would it go out to every student or just the asthmatics?
 
@Okiedokie: Just the asthmatics. The school nurse would send the survey home and I would pick it up from the school nurse. I don't know who the children are and the nurse would not be able to read any of the info. It is all anonymous and confidential. Trust me, if you do have a child with asthma, the school and the nurse are already aware that your child has it because they would have your child's asthma medication at the school incase of an emergency. The survey is sealed in an envelope. (I can't afford to send it out to everyone; LOL).
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