ArticleNursing in critical care2025
The effect of illness uncertainty and self-efficacy on the perception of shared decision-making among parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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- Communication of Illness Severity to Parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Scoping Review of Communication Characteristics and Prognostic Framing.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Interactional Compression and Maternal Participation in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Qualitative Study of Nurse-Mother Communication Barriers and Co-Produced Solutions.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Influence of Depressive Symptoms on Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Mediating Effect of Self-Efficacy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Perception of uncertainty among parents of children with pneumonia undergoing mechanical ventilation: what should we focus on.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Parental involvement in neonatal decision-making: a narrative review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Shared Decision-Making in Korean Healthcare: A Scoping Review.Journal of Korean medical science · 2025Article
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- The effect of illness uncertainty and self-efficacy on the perception of shared decision-making among parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundShared decision-making is essential for improving infant prognoses. Medical staff should consider the effect of illness uncertainty and self-efficacy on parents' perceptions of shared decision-making.
aimsThis study examined the impact of illness uncertainty and self-efficacy on the perception of shared decision-making among parents of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. STUDY
designA descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study design was used. Data were collected from April to June 2023. A total of 103 parents of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit participated in this study. The participants used a self-report questionnaire that included general characteristics of their infants, uncertainty of illness, self-efficacy and perception of shared decision-making. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, analysis of variance, Scheffe's test, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression.
resultsIllness uncertainty (r = -.659, p < .001, 95% confidence interval = [-1.209, -0.765]) was negatively correlated with self-efficacy, and self-efficacy (r = .255, p = .009, 95% confidence interval = [0.082, 0.569]) was positively correlated with the perception of shared decision-making. Using multiple linear regression, the number of visits to the intensive care unit (β = -1.939, p = .015, 95% confidence interval = [-3.490, -0.389]) and parents' self-efficacy (β = .271, p = .028, 95% confidence interval = [0.030, 0.512]) had a statistically significant effect on the perception of shared decision-making, accounting for 11.9% of the total explanatory power.
conclusionsThe results support that higher self-efficacy is associated with a higher degree of perception of shared decision-making among parents of infants in the intensive care unit. Therefore, clinicians might support parents in taking a more active role in shared decision-making by discussing available options with clinicians and reaching treatment plans together. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The study suggests creating scales to assess nurses' participation in shared decision-making and recommends educational programmes to boost parents' self-efficacy with infants, significantly affecting perceptions of shared decision-making.
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