Families' Importance in Nursing Care

BackgroundIn Quebec (Canada), nearly 20,000 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the majority of the miscarriages are dealt with in an emergency unit. Although there are studies documenting the effects of this type of grief on mental health, men’s experiences are much less discussed than those of women. Similarly, no study has evaluated best practices in terms of service continuity, from emergency care to community resources. The aim of this study is to better understand the relationships that exist between the organization of emergency room and primary care health services for women presenting with miscarriage, on the one hand, and the positions and experiences of women and men within these services, on the other.MethodsThe general objective of this mixed-method study can be broken down into three methodological sections. Focus 1. Institutional discourses and practices. This section is structured as a multiple case study of the mandates of five participant institutions. The study will involve (a) a documentary analysis; (b) a quantitative survey (N: 200) and (c) group interviews (N: 75) with caregivers and emergency unit managers. Focus 2. Women’s and men’s experiences of miscarriages and the institutional response. This section includes (a) a survey (N: 232) and (b) individual interviews (N: 80) designed to identify best practices in emergency involving women and their partners in each area. Focus 3. This section will integrate the information furnished by the first two sections in order to create an ethnographic overview of the situation.DiscussionThis innovative project will provide answers to critical questions on how to improve the effectiveness and quality of interdisciplinary and multisectoral interventions to promote the mental health and psychosocial well-being of couples having experienced a miscarriage. It will have a material effect on the organization of emergency services and of the primary care pathway for women experiencing a miscarriage and for their partners.Trial registrationNot applicable. This study involves a retrospective view of usual health care interventions. This study is not a clinical trial that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes.

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“…Sociodemographic datab. Families’ Importance in Nursing Care scale [33]c. Self-efficacy at Work Scale [34]d.…”

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Protocol for evaluation of the continuum of primary care in the case of a miscarriage in the emergency room: a mixed-method study

Montigny

Verdon

Dubeau

et al. 2017

BMC Pregnancy Childbirth

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“…1. Families' Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA) (Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, & Saveman, 2008;Blöndal et al, 2014;Hsiao & Tsai, 2015;Luttik et al, 2017;Pascual Fernández et al, 2015) and three further versions of the scale: a revised version (FINC-NA-R) (Gusdal, Josefsson, Thors Adolfsson, & Martin, 2017;Linnarsson, Benzein, & Årestedt, 2015;Saveman, Benzein, Engström, & Årestedt, 2011), a short version (FINC-NA-S) (Mackie, Marshall, Mitchell, & Ireland, 2017) and a modified Portuguese version (IFCE-AE) (Oliveira et al., 2011). (Hsiao & Tsai, 2015;Simpson & Tarrant, 2006).…”

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“…The FINC-NA was inductively developed by Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, et al (2008) with the aim of measuring nurses' attitudes towards the importance of involving families in nursing care.…”

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“…The FINC-NA includes four subscales: family as a resource in nursing care, referring to a positive attitude towards families' presence in nursing care; family as a conversational partner, referring to the acknowledgement of the patients' family members as conversational partners; family as a burden, referring to statements of experiencing family as a burden; and finally, family as its own resource, referring to families' own resources for coping (Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, et al, 2008).…”

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“…The content validity was established by two groups of nursesa group of academic nurses and doctoral students and a group of practising nurses-and it was rated as positive (Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, et al, 2008). The structural validity was assessed through principal component analysis (PCA), which identified a fourfactor solution with an explained variance of less than 50% (44.9%); therefore, it was rated as negative (Benzein, Johansson, Arestedt, Berg, et al, 2008). The overall dimensionality of the original version of the FINC-NA was reproduced in the FINC-NA-R, which explained 54% of the total variance, thus resulting in a positive rating (Saveman et al, 2011).…”

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Systematic review of measurement properties of instruments assessing nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice

Alfaro‐Díaz

Esandi

Gutiérrez-Alemán

et al. 2019

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims To identify, appraise and describe the characteristics and measurement properties of instruments assessing nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice. Design Psychometric systematic review. Data Sources The PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library databases were searched from their time of inception to June 2018. Review Methods Two reviewers independently assessed the eligibility of studies, extracted data, and appraised the methodological quality of the studies using the COSMIN checklist. Results A total of 19 studies representing 5 instruments were included. Two instruments—a revised version of the Families’ Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses’ Attitudes scale (FINC‐NA‐R) and the Family Nurse Practice Scale (FNPS)—obtained higher scores for most of their properties. The instruments used in the remaining eight studies require further assessment of their psychometric properties. Conclusion This psychometric review offers a synthesis of the quality of the available instruments and gives a better understanding of nursing theory‐based tools. The FNPS and FINC‐NA‐R instruments seem to be the most suitable measures of nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice. Impact The growing emphasis on improving nurse–family relationships and the quality of care provided makes it necessary to have valid and reliable instruments for assessing nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice. This paper provides evidence that will help clinicians and researchers make decisions about the most suitable instrument based on a critical appraisal and comparison of the measurement properties according to a rigorous methodology.

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Family-Centered Attitudes and Actions in Youth Care and Special Education: Development and Evaluation of a New Measuring Instrument

Tang,

de Haan,

Kuiper

et al. 2025

Child Youth Care Forum

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Families' Importance in Nursing Care

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Protocol for evaluation of the continuum of primary care in the case of a miscarriage in the emergency room: a mixed-method study

Protocol for evaluation of the continuum of primary care in the case of a miscarriage in the emergency room: a mixed-method study

Systematic review of measurement properties of instruments assessing nurses’ attitudes towards the importance of involving families in their clinical practice

Family-Centered Attitudes and Actions in Youth Care and Special Education: Development and Evaluation of a New Measuring Instrument

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