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Title: | Low-income parents' perceptions of the importance of a musical training programme for their children : a qualitative study | Authors: | Ho, LLK Li, WHC Cheung, AT Xia, W Ho, KY Chung, JOK |
Issue Date: | 2020 | Source: | BMC public health, 2020, v. 20, 1454, p. 1-8 | Abstract: | Background: Despite clear evidence for the effectiveness of musical training in promoting psychological well-being among underprivileged children, parents' perceptions of the importance of such training for their children remains unknown. Methods: Of the parents of 171 underprivileged preschool children in Hong Kong who had participated in a free musical training programme, 25 were randomly selected and invited to participate in individual semi-structured interviews. Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological data analysis strategy was followed for analysing the data. Results: The results showed that parents identified numerous benefits of the programme for their child, including increased happiness, improved confidence, positive behavioural changes, and enhanced parent-child relationships. At the beginning of the programme, parents tended to disregard the usefulness of musical training but gradually came to recognise its importance for their children's psychological and social well-being. However, children were limited by their parents' financial constraints from participating in musical training after the free programme ended. Conclusions: These findings imply that existing policy may overlook the psychosocial needs of underprivileged children and suggest that more resources should be allocated to facilitate the continuity and sustainability of such a free programme for this vulnerable population. |
Keywords: | Parents' perceptions Musical training Preschool children Poverty Psychological health Parent-child relationship Low-income families |
Publisher: | BioMed Central | Journal: | BMC public health | EISSN: | 1471-2458 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12889-020-09568-7 | Rights: | Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. The following publication Ho, L.L.K., Li, W.H.C., Cheung, A.T. et al. Low-income parents’ perceptions of the importance of a musical training programme for their children: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 20, 1454 (2020) is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09568-7 |
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