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Title
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Interview with John Moody.
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Creator
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Moody, John, Dooley, Terry L.
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Abstract/Description
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John Benjamin Moody was born in 1918 in Tampa, Florida. He worked for over fifty years for airlines in Miami in the maintenance and mechanical division. He moved back to homestead area to Lake Placid in 1993. Moody is related to Edna Pearce through Rev. Levi Pearce's marriage to his great great-grandmother's sister. He attended Pearce reunions at the Pearce Homestead as a child and much later as a retiree. Moody was instrumental in the restoration and upkeep of the on-site Pearce cemetery.
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Date Issued
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2007
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007885
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Subject Headings
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Oral histories --Florida
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Format
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Document (PDF)
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Scholar's name
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Sharon Placide
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Department
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Department of Sociology
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Status
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Current
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Email
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splacide@fau.edu
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Format
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Institutional Scholar
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Title
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THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS ON PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSURANCE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY.
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Creator
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Reaves, Régine Placide, Chiang-Hanisko, Lenny, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
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Abstract/Description
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Due to recent advances in medical technology, the number of children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) is steadily growing in the United States. CSHCN comprise more than 40% of overall healthcare costs nationwide, even though this group is only comprised of 16% of the U.S. child population. There are significant differences between private and public health plans in terms of cost, adequacy, and parent satisfaction. As an added benefit, some public and private health insurance plans offer...
Show moreDue to recent advances in medical technology, the number of children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN) is steadily growing in the United States. CSHCN comprise more than 40% of overall healthcare costs nationwide, even though this group is only comprised of 16% of the U.S. child population. There are significant differences between private and public health plans in terms of cost, adequacy, and parent satisfaction. As an added benefit, some public and private health insurance plans offer nursing care coordination (or nursing case management) services. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of parents of CSHCN enrolled in public and private insurance with or without a nurse care coordinator assigned. A phenomenological approach was used. One-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 participants. Colaizzi’s (1978) eight steps of data analysis was the selected methodological interpretation. Five themes emerged from this study: Struggle with Self-Preservation, Abandonment and Isolation, Self-Reliance and Advocate, Interdependence, and Lifeline. These study findings highlighted the major differences with parents navigating their child’s health insurance. These differences were dependent on the type of insurance and sources of support available. The experience of parents with a nurse care coordinator differed from parents without a nurse. Parents of CSHCN enrolled in public insurance with a nurse care coordinator considered the nurse to be a primary source of support. These nurses were instrumental in solving problems with the public health plan. On the contrary, parents with CSHCN enrolled in private insurance without a nurse care coordinator carried this additional burden. There were also noticeable differences in parents’ satisfaction with the adequacy and cost of their child’s health insurance. Parents of CSHCN enrolled in private insurance voiced dissatisfaction with higher costs associated with their child’s plan. Meanwhile, parents of CSHCN enrolled in Medicaid expressed that out-of-pocket expenses were covered. Results from this study can be used to make policy changes by insurance companies. Incorporating nursing care coordination not only results in healthcare savings for the health plan but improved health outcomes for its members as well.
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Date Issued
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2020
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013582
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Subject Headings
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Health insurance, Phenomenology--Research, Parents of children with disabilities
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Format
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Document (PDF)
