Family-Centered Care: a Scoping Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37886/ruo.2020.022Keywords:
family-centered care, family centeredness, partnering with families, family nursing, healthcare, scoping review, communication, systematic solutionsAbstract
Research Question (RQ): How is family-centered care perceived in scientific literature?
Purpose: To provide a scoping review of the literature about family-centred care.
Method: In databases we searched for the articles using the following searching terms: ‘family-centered care,’ ‘family centeredness,’ ‘family nursing,’ and ‘partnering with families.’ We gradually excluded the articles that did not meet our conditions. The articles that met our conditions were thematically analysed.
Results: We identified five core characteristics of family-centered care: the importance of communication, involvement of patients and family members, support to family members, organisational aspects, and the importance of nurses’ attitudes. We stressed that family-centered care proposes a systematic solution which strives to optimize the level of satisfaction of all included parties, because it perceives healthcare process as an intersubjective reality in which all of the involved parties mutually depend on each other.
Organization: The results of this study might be applied and taken into account in designing a program of healthcare.
Society: The results of this study propose a systematic solution for delivering health care that would improve wellbeing of all included parties.
Originality: The article offers a thematical analysis of the literature and at the same time synthetizes the main characteristic of family-centered care.
Limitations / further research: Only articles published in English language were included. We did not differentiate between different types of healthcare environment.
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