Evaluation of patient and Family-Centered Care; a Survey of Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Units
Wali Haider Zaidi, Mahnoor Mohydin, Saed Aftab Ahmad, M. Roshan Asghar, Nuram Hashmi, Muhammad Umair, Ali Naim Butt
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ABSTRACT
Aim: To
evaluate the application of the principles of Patient and Family-centered Care
Methodology:
A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Pediatric and Neonatal
Intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Punjab, Pakistan. IRB
approval was granted, and the study spanned a period from January 2019 to June
2019. A questionnaire was created to survey the pediatric patient's parents.
Data analysis was done using SPSS 25.
Results: A
total of 158 responses were recorded. The majority of the parents felt that
patient and family-centered care was not being applied to the admitted
patients' management plans in the pediatric and neonatal ICUs.
Conclusion:
The treatment of patients in the pediatric and neonatal ICUs was not
following the principles of patient and family-centered care. Therefore,
further studies are required to improve the ease of access, alongside limiting
the barriers to the patient and family-centered care in Pakistan. This way,
patients can benefit from improved outcomes associated with PFCC.
Keywords:
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), intensive care unit (ICU),
pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), patient and family-centered care (PFCC).