Family-centred care change during COVID-19

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Vetcho, S
Cooke, M
Petsky, H
Saito, A
Ullman, AJ
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2022
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Background: Family-centred care (FCC) is an approach to promote family and health care provider partnership. This has been incorporated into neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) worldwide. However, FCC in low resource health settings, such as Thailand, is challenging and further impacted by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Aims: To evaluate FCC innovations to improve respect, collaboration and support in a Thai NICU. Study design: A quasi-experimental study was conducted in an NICU in southern Thailand. Pre-implementation was prior to COVID-19, and parental and staff perceptions of FCC were measured via Perceptions of Family Centred Care-Parent (PFCC-P) and -Staff (PFCC-S) survey. The FCC innovations were developed by stakeholders based on the COVID-19 restrictions, pre-survey results, parents' and clinicians' interviews and integrative review, then implemented via a flowchart. Post-implementation evaluation was via repeated surveys. Comparisons were made pre-and post-implementation, with Mann–Whitney U-test statistics for parents and Wilcoxon's Rank Sum for staff. Results: A total of 185 (85 pre; 100 post) parents and 20 (pre and post; paired group) health care professionals participated. Because of COVID-19, many planned interventions were unfeasible, however, other innovations achieved (e.g., structured telephone updates, information booklet revision). There was an increase in parents' perception of respect ([median] 2.50–3.50), collaboration (2.33–3.33) and support (2.60–3.60) domains and overall (2.50–3.43; p <.001; 95% CI: 2.93–3.11). Interdisciplinary professionals' perception of FCC did not significantly change pre-and post-implementation/COVID-19 pandemic for respect (3.00–2.92), collaboration (3.22–3.33), support (3.20–3.20) and overall (3.15–3.20; 95% CI: 3.10–3.25). Conclusion: Despite the challenges of COVID-19 restricting NICU access, the provision of FCC was maintained and even improved. Relevance to clinical practice: Further research is necessary to develop FCC practice innovations associated with communication, across diverse health care systems and resources.

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Nursing in Critical Care

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© 2022 The Authors. Nursing in Critical Care published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Association of Critical Care Nurses. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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General practice

Nursing

Family care

Clinical sciences

Thailand

family-centred care

interdisciplinary professionals

neonatal intensive care unit

parents

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Vetcho, S; Cooke, M; Petsky, H; Saito, A; Ullman, AJ, Family-centred care change during COVID-19, Nursing in Critical Care, 2022

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