Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39431501›Full record

ArticleNursing in critical care2025

Health care providers' perceptions of family participation in essential care in the intensive care unit: A qualitative study.

Boukje M Dijkstra, Lisette Schoonhoven, Karin M Felten-Barentsz, Margriet J M van der Valk, Johannes G van der Hoeven, Lilian C M Vloet

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Nursing in critical care, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Boukje M DijkstraResearch Department Emergency and Critical Care, HAN University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-3098
Lisette SchoonhovenNursing Science, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Karin M Felten-BarentszResearch Department Emergency and Critical Care, HAN University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Margriet J M van der ValkResearch Department Emergency and Critical Care, HAN University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Johannes G van der HoevenIntensive Care Unit, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Lilian C M VloetResearch Department Emergency and Critical Care, HAN University of Applied Sciences, School of Health Studies, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Funding

Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundFamily participation in essential care may benefit patients and relatives.

aimTo examine the needs, perceptions and preferences of health care providers about family participation in essential care in the adult intensive care unit. STUDY

designA qualitative descriptive study using inductive thematic analysis. Three focus group interviews with a total of 30 intensive care unit health care providers, consisting of 20 critical care nurses, one nursing assistant, five physicians, three physical therapists and one speech therapist working in three Dutch intensive care units.

resultsOne overarching theme, balancing interests, and four main themes emerged: looking after the patient's interests, taking the relatives' perspective into account, looking after interests of intensive care unit health care providers and conditions for family participation. The first theme, looking after the patient's interests, included three sub-themes: insecurity about patient's wishes and needs, patient safety concerns and potential benefits for the patient. The second theme, taking the relatives' perspective into account, was also characterized by three sub-themes: concerns about the relatives' possible burden, potential benefits for the relative and the relationship between patient and relative. The third theme, looking after interests of intensive care unit health care providers, included three sub-themes: attitude towards family participation in essential care, differing perceptions of essential care and concerns about intensive care unit health care provider's burden. The last theme, conditions for family participation, included two sub-themes: establishing a relationship and considering family participation in essential care as a process.

conclusionsHealth care providers' perceptions and preferences regarding family participation in essential care in the intensive care unit are summarized in the overarching theme balancing interests. This overarching theme also reflects the needs and perceptions of patients and relatives. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: These findings may support critical care nurses and other health care providers when encouraging family participation in essential care.

Indexed as

Attitude of Health PersonnelCritical CareFamilyHealth PersonnelIntensive Care UnitsProfessional-Family RelationsAdultFemaleFocus GroupsHumansMaleMiddle AgedNetherlandsQualitative Researchessential carefamily participationintensive care unitnursingrelatives

Identifiers

PMID39431501
PMCPMC12106000

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.