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Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study

AIM: This study aimed to describe the psychosocial support healthcare professionals in specialist palliative inpatient units provide to family members of palliative care patients. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive design. METHOD: The data were collected with focus group interviews and analysed with...

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Autores principales: Soikkeli‐Jalonen, Anu, Mishina, Kaisa, Virtanen, Heli, Charalambous, Andreas, Haavisto, Elina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10077415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36539588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1548
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author Soikkeli‐Jalonen, Anu
Mishina, Kaisa
Virtanen, Heli
Charalambous, Andreas
Haavisto, Elina
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Mishina, Kaisa
Virtanen, Heli
Charalambous, Andreas
Haavisto, Elina
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description AIM: This study aimed to describe the psychosocial support healthcare professionals in specialist palliative inpatient units provide to family members of palliative care patients. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive design. METHOD: The data were collected with focus group interviews and analysed with inductive content analysis. RESULTS: Altogether, 48 healthcare professionals, including physicians, registered nurses and practical nurses, participated in the study. Information sharing was recognised as an essential element of support. Methods to improve support of family members included an opportunity to allocate recourses to the families, systematic support and strengthening healthcare professionals' competence in family care. The healthcare professionals describe their perceptions of psychosocial support for family members primarily through patient care and the patient's situation rather than family needs. Direct support for the family members is realised principally by information sharing and conversations. Healthcare professionals express their opportunities to implement support focusing on family members' needs restricted by reason of organisational resources. The information can be used when developing and improving family care in palliative care context to recognise the most relevant needs from healthcare professionals' perspective and also when implementing healthcare professionals' education and training.
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spelling pubmed-100774152023-04-07 Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study Soikkeli‐Jalonen, Anu Mishina, Kaisa Virtanen, Heli Charalambous, Andreas Haavisto, Elina Nurs Open Empirical Research Qualitative AIM: This study aimed to describe the psychosocial support healthcare professionals in specialist palliative inpatient units provide to family members of palliative care patients. DESIGN: A qualitative descriptive design. METHOD: The data were collected with focus group interviews and analysed with inductive content analysis. RESULTS: Altogether, 48 healthcare professionals, including physicians, registered nurses and practical nurses, participated in the study. Information sharing was recognised as an essential element of support. Methods to improve support of family members included an opportunity to allocate recourses to the families, systematic support and strengthening healthcare professionals' competence in family care. The healthcare professionals describe their perceptions of psychosocial support for family members primarily through patient care and the patient's situation rather than family needs. Direct support for the family members is realised principally by information sharing and conversations. Healthcare professionals express their opportunities to implement support focusing on family members' needs restricted by reason of organisational resources. The information can be used when developing and improving family care in palliative care context to recognise the most relevant needs from healthcare professionals' perspective and also when implementing healthcare professionals' education and training. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10077415/ /pubmed/36539588 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1548 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mishina, Kaisa
Virtanen, Heli
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Haavisto, Elina
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title Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study
title_full Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study
title_fullStr Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study
title_full_unstemmed Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study
title_short Healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—A qualitative descriptive study
title_sort healthcare professionals' perceptions of psychosocial support for family members in palliative care inpatient units—a qualitative descriptive study
topic Empirical Research Qualitative
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10077415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36539588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1548
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