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ArticleBMC health services research2022

What does family involvement in care provision look like across hospital settings in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Korea?

J Y Park, J F Pardosi, M S Islam, T Respati, K Chowdhury, H Seale

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Article in BMC health services research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

J Y ParkSchool of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. jiyeon.park@unsw.edu.au.
J F PardosiSchool of Public Health & Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
M S IslamSchool of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
T RespatiFaculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia.
K ChowdhuryInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
H SealeSchool of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research · BDUNSW Sydney · AUBandung Islamic University · IDQueensland University of Technology · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFamily members provide care whilst staying in the patient's room across a range of cultural settings, irrespective of resource availability in many Asian countries. This has been reported as a contributing factor to the spread of several outbreaks, including COVID-19. Despite these reports, very little is known about the risk of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) transmission related to the involvement of family and private carers in the clinical setting. As a starting point to understanding this issue, this study aimed to provide insights regarding the patient care activities undertaken by family and private carers and the guidance provided to these carers around infection control measures in hospitals located in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and South Korea.

methodA qualitative study involving 57 semi-structured interviews was undertaken in five tertiary level hospitals across the selected countries. Two groups of individuals were interviewed: (1) patients and their family carers and private carers; and (2) healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses, hospital managers and staff members. Drawing upon the principles of grounded theory, an inductive approach to data analysis using thematic analysis was adopted.

resultsFive main themes were generated from the analysis of the data: (1) expectation of family carers staying with a patient; (2) residing in the patient's environment: (3) caring activities undertaken by family carers; (4) supporting and educating family carers and (5) communication around healthcare-associated infection and infection prevention and control.

conclusionBased on the types of activities being undertaken, coupled with the length of time family and private carers are residing within the clinical setting, coupled with an apparent lack of guidance being given around IPC, more needs to be done to ensure that these carers are not being inadvertently exposed to HAI's or other occupational risks.

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COVID-19Cross InfectionBangladeshCaregiversFamilyHospitalsHumansIndonesiaQualitative ResearchRepublic of KoreaCaring cultureFamily caregiverFamily involvementHealthcare-associated infectionsHospital infectionsInfection prevention and controlPatient carePrivate caregivers

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PMID35841023
PMCPMC9286761
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