The participants of this study were limited to parents of
children who had emergency surgery. As a further qualifier,
parents were included if they accompanied their children comprehensively at least during the first 24 hours
after surgery. Therefore, different findings might have
emerged if the experiences of other parents were included
whose children underwent elective surgeries or who did
not comprehensively attend their children at the hospital.
Similar studies on parents with the mentioned conditions
are recommended.