The family impact of childhood atopic dermatitis: Scoping review

Throughout the review, we determined the concept's defining attributes, antecedents, and consequences, and by the greater understanding of these, potentially lead to better development of nursing interventions and childrearing support.Furthermore, we considered the potential for improving the QoL of patients with atopic dermatitis, who, as noted above, are expected to increase in the future. Concept analysisConcept analysis refers to the method of unfolding, exploring, and understanding of a concept for the purposes of concept development, delineation, comparison, clarification, correction, identification, refinement, and validation (Morse, Hupcey, Mitcham, & Lenz, 1996;Rodgers & Knafl, 2000;Walker & Avant, 2005).Ultimately, a concept analysis produces a precise operational definition of a given concept (Walker & Avant, 2005).We chose Walker and Avant's framework for concept analysis, which is based on Wilson's original concept analysis method (Wilson, 1963).An outline of the eight steps and whether and how they were applied in this concept analysis is shown in Table 1.Walker and Avant (2005) proposed that the purpose of a concept analysis is to determine the structure and function of a concept.They consolidated the concept analysis process into eight steps (Walker & Avant, 2005).The main issue of this study, "the family impact of childhood atopic dermatitis," is too abstract for conducting a concept analysis, so it is not appropriate as a "concept."However, we considered the steps of analysis and how to draw the concept model very useful. Review methodsWe adopted the scoping study framework which Arksey and