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Family Health Conversations create awareness of family functioning.
Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Nursing Sciences and Reproductive Health. Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Region Östergötland, Anaesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Norrköping.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5132-0045
Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Nursing Sciences and Reproductive Health. Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Region Östergötland, Anaesthetics, Operations and Specialty Surgery Center, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Norrköping.
Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Nursing Sciences and Reproductive Health. Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1588-135X
Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Nursing Sciences and Reproductive Health. Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Region Östergötland, Heart Center, Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery.
2020 (English)In: Nursing in Critical Care, ISSN 1362-1017, E-ISSN 1478-5153, no 2, p. 102-108Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

BACKGROUND: The whole family is affected if one family member is critically ill. The Family Health Conversation Intervention may give the family tools that support healthier family functioning.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to identify which components of family function are affected when families participate in Family Health Conversations.

DESIGN: A secondary analysis was performed of existing qualitative interviews. The Family Health Conversation is an intervention where nurses ask the family reflective questions, and reflection is made possible in three conversation sessions.

METHODS: This study included transcribed data from 13 follow-up interviews from seven families attending Family Health Conversations after three and 12 months. Data were analysed with narrative analysis, focusing on family function.

RESULTS: Three themes were identified. The families' family functioning had been supported with: improved understanding of each other-there was an understanding of being in the same situation but still having totally different experiences; more concern for each other-they talked about their different experiences and felt they had become closer to each other; and a process of working through-they had experienced working through various experiences, standing by and supporting, and then being able to move on.

CONCLUSIONS: The Family Health Conversation Intervention is provided to families, accompanied by nurses. The families in this study gained an awareness of their family function that brought the family closer because of improved understanding of each other and the situation. The families experienced openness, and the family members spoke more freely with each other, which facilitated the progress of working through the experience of critical illness and helped to maintain healthy family functioning.

RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: It is important to have an overall perspective and to recognize the patient and the family as equally important within the family for awareness of family function.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. no 2, p. 102-108
Keywords [en]
family members, family nursing, intensive care, narrativism, secondary analysis
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-157714DOI: 10.1111/nicc.12454ISI: 000516973500006PubMedID: 31197904OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-157714DiVA, id: diva2:1327506
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Funding agencies: Health Research Council in the South-East of Sweden [FORSS 466311]; Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linkoping University, Norrkoping, Sweden

Available from: 2019-06-19 Created: 2019-06-19 Last updated: 2022-11-10
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1. Being cared for in an Intensive Care Unit – family functioning and support
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Being cared for in an Intensive Care Unit – family functioning and support
2022 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

When COVID-19 came as an uninvited guest into our everyday lives, nursing in intensive care was affected and thus the studies contain data from both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before the pandemic, most intensive care units, which care for patients with critical illness in a technical setting, allowed family members to visit the patient 24 hours a day. The intensive care unit is a stressful and frightening environment for both the patient and their family. They can be affected both mentally and physically, showing symptoms such as difficulty sleeping, stress and depression. The intensive cared patient often does not remember anything from the time they were cared for in the intensive care unit, and the family needs to explain and recount this unconscious time. During the pandemic, this changed, with restrictions and limited opportunities to visit the hospital and patient due to virus outbreaks. Family members received information about the patient's medical condition by phone from a physician.   

The overall aim of this thesis was to explore and conceptualise the family functioning of families with a family member treated in the intensive care unit. There was also an intention to describe and evaluate how an intervention affects the family and individual family members in families where a family member received intensive care.

In these studies, qualitative, quantitative, as well as mixed methods were utilised. Participants were adult intensive cared patients from seven intensive care clinics, and their families. The results examined between families are based on the patient and family characteristics.   

The results from study I show that families who have experienced COVID-19 and with a family member who was cared for in an intensive care unit, have existential thoughts.   

Study II shows no major impact on family function between families, but the answers differ within the families who experienced intensive care.   

In study III, concerning families experiencing intensive care and attending family health conversations, there was an awareness of family function. The conversations brought the family closer together, through improved understanding of each other.  

In study IV family functioning, hope and sense of coherence were com-pared among the participants in two intervention groups: Family health conversations and support group conversations. Family functioning and hope were higher in the group that participated in the family health conversations and comprehensibility, meaningfulness and vitality were higher among the participants in the support group conversation.  

By exploring how family function affects the individual family member and the family as a unit during critical illness and intensive care, new ways of working can be strengthened in the care of patients and their families.    

Abstract [sv]

När COVID - 19 kom in som en objuden gäst i vår vardag, har omvårdnad inom intensivvården påverkats, och gjort att studierna innehåller data både före och under COVID-19 pandemin.   

Före pandemin erbjöd de flesta intensivvårdsavdelningar, som tar hand om patienter med kritisk sjukdom i en teknisk miljö, familjemedlemmar att besöka patienten dygnet runt. Detta är en stressig och skrämmande miljö för både patienten och dennes familj. De kan påverkas mentalt och fysiskt med bland annat symtom som sömnsvårigheter, stress och depression. Intensivvårdspatienten kommer ofta inte ihåg något från tiden de vårdats på intensiven och familjen behöver förklara och återberätta den förlorade tiden. Under pandemin förändrades detta, med restriktioner och begränsad möjlighet att besöka sjukhuset och patienten på grund av virusutbrott. Familjemedlemmar fick information om patientens sjukdomstillstånd, per telefon av en läkare.   

Det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling var att undersöka familjefunktionen hos familjer med en familjemedlem som vårdats på intensivvårdsavdelning. Det fanns också en avsikt att beskriva och utvärdera hur en intervention påverkar familjen och enskilda familjemedlemmar i familjer där en familjemedlem fick intensivvård.  

I dessa studier användes kvalitativa, kvantitativa och mixad metod. Deltagarna var vuxna intensivvårdspatienter från sju intensivvårdskliniker och deras familjer. Resultaten som undersöks mellan familjer baseras på patient- och familjekarakteristika.  

Resultatet i studie I, visar att familjer som erfarit COVID - 19 sjukdom och vårdats på intensivvårdsavdelning, har existentiella funderingar.   

Studie II visar ingen större påverkan på familjefunktion mellan familjerna, men svaren skiljer sig inom familjen som erfarit intensivvård.

I studie III där familjer som upplever intensivvård och deltagit i hälsostödjande familjesamtal visar en medvetenhet om familjefunktion. Samtalen för familjen närmare varandra, genom förbättrad förståelse av varandra.   

I studie IV jämfördes familjefunktion, hopp om framtiden och känsla av sammanhang bland deltagarna i två interventionsgrupper: Hälsostödjande familjesamtal och stödgruppssamtal. Familjefunktion och hopp om fram-tiden var högre i gruppen som deltog i hälsostödjande familjesamtalen och begriplighet, meningsfullhet och vitalitet var högre bland deltagarna i stödgruppssamtalet.  

Genom att utforska hur familjens funktion påverkar, den enskilde familjemedlemmen och familjen som enhet, av kritisk sjukdom och intensivvård kan nya arbetssätt stärkas i omvårdnaden av patienter och deras anhöriga.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2022. p. 80
Series
Linköping University Medical Dissertations, ISSN 0345-0082 ; 1820
Keywords
Critical Care Nursing, Family, Family Members, Family Nursing, Family Relation, Intensive Care Units, Nursing
National Category
Nursing
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urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-189871 (URN)10.3384/9789179294359 (DOI)9789179294342 (ISBN)9789179294359 (ISBN)
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2022-12-16, Berzeliussalen, Building 463, Campus US, Linköping, 09:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2022-11-10 Created: 2022-11-10 Last updated: 2022-11-10Bibliographically approved

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