Abstract
Background Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) face significant challenges to deal with everyday activities due to underlying motor proficiency difficulties. These challenges affect children and young people's participation; that is, involvement in daily life situations. Recent years have seen a growing body of qualitative research examining children's experiences of living with DCD. Meta-ethnographic synthesis offers a rigorous approach to bring together the findings of discrete qualitative studies to be synthesised in order to advance the conceptual understanding of living with DCD, which is not well conceptualised in the literature to date. Conducting a meta-ethnographic synthesis will help to illuminate the meaning of children and young people's experiences of DCD regarding their involvement in everyday activities and situations. Aim This study aims to systematically review and synthesise qualitative literature regarding children and young people's experiences and views of everyday life and living with DCD. Methods The method of qualitative evidence synthesis that will be followed in this review is a meta-ethnography. The eMERGe and PRISMA reporting guidelines will be adhered to. Ten databases will be searched; Academic Search Complete, AMED, CINAHL, ERIC, MEDLINE, PsychArticles, PsychInfo, EMBASE, SPORTDiscus, and Web of Science. The Joanna Briggs Institute Checklist will be used by two independent reviewers to appraise all included papers. PROSPERO registration number CRD42019129178 Discussion The findings of this meta-ethnography will endeavour to inform future research, policy and practice. In particular, the results will help to inform the design of future complex interventions to meet the needs of children and young people with DCD. Dissemination will involve the publication of the results in a peer-reviewed journal. Increasingly researchers and policymakers are calling for services to be informed by the perspective and voice of children with DCD. Therefore, a policy brief will be published so that the findings are widely available.
Highlights
Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) face significant challenges to deal with everyday activities due to underlying motor proficiency difficulties
The principal objective of this study is to systematically review and synthesise qualitative literature regarding children and young people’s experiences and views of everyday life and living with DCD
Limitations and strengths To the best our knowledge, we believe this is the first systematic review to integrate and synthesise the findings of qualitative studies on the views and experiences of children and young people living with DCD
Summary
Qualitative evidence synthesis involves synthesising multiple qualitative primary research studies (France et al, 2019b). The views, perceptions, or concepts presented in the results and discussion of primary studies are considered the raw data of meta-ethnography (Toye et al, 2014) These concepts and ideas are labelled as second-order constructs and are derived from the researcher’s analysis and interpretation of the research participants words used to describe their experiences of the phenomenon such as living with DCD, known as first-order constructs or key concepts (Toye et al, 2014). PHASE 6 & 7 Synthesizing translations and Expressing the synthesis The final stages, phase six and seven, will involve the research team synthesising the conceptual categories into a line of argument, which provides greater conceptual understanding to the phenomena of interest as a whole; that is children and young people with DCD perspectives and experiences of everyday life and living with DCD. Given the national and international focus upon promoting the voice of the child, the findings of this study must be presented in an accessible format for all possible stakeholders (Ombudsman for Children’s Office, 2019)
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