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Family‐centred care for children in hospital

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004811Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 20 October 2003see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Protocol
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group

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  1. Copyright © 2006 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Linda Shields

    Correspondence to: Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    [email protected]

  • Jan Pratt

    Primary Care Program Community Health Services, Royal Children's Hospital, Spring Hill, Australia

  • Vicki J Flenady

    Centre for Clinical Studies‐Women's and Children's Health, Women's and Children's Health Service, Mater Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia

  • Leigh M Davis

    Centre for Clinical Studies ‐ Women's and Children's Health, Women's and Children's Health Services, South Brisbane, Australia

  • Judith Hunter

    School of Nursing Practice and Midwifery, University of Northumbria, UK

Contributions of authors

Linda Shields, Jan Pratt and Judith Hunter: conceived the review and were content experts, providing input into the development of the background and objectives of the review.

Leigh Davis: involved in all aspects of the protocol development and compiled the protocol.

Vicki Flenady: developed the methods of the protocol with Leigh Davis and assisted Leigh Davis in the compilation and editing of the protocol.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • Centre for Clinical Studies ‐ Women's and Children's Health, Mater Mothers' Hospital, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

External sources

  • Telstra Foundation ‐ Community Development Fund, Australia.

  • Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Brisbane, Australia.

Declarations of interest

None known

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Dr Elizabeth Ahmann for her input during the development of the protocol. We would also like to express our appreciation to Drs Carol Trivette and Carl Dunst for their assistance during protocol development, and for permission to use their research tool.

This protocol was read by four members of the editorial team of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group and four external peer reviewers.

We thank the staff and editors of the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group, particularly Judy Stoelwinder for assistance with the search strategy, and contact editor Dr. Sophie Hill for her advice and support.

Version history

Published

Title

Stage

Authors

Version

2012 Oct 17

Family‐centred care for hospitalised children aged 0‐12 years

Review

Linda Shields, Huaqiong Zhou, Jan Pratt, Marjory Taylor, Judith Hunter, Elaine Pascoe

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004811.pub3

2007 Jan 24

Family‐centred care for children in hospital

Review

Linda Shields, Jan Pratt, Leigh Davis, Judith Hunter

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004811.pub2

2003 Oct 20

Family‐centred care for children in hospital

Protocol

Linda Shields, Jan Pratt, Vicki J Flenady, Leigh M Davis, Judith Hunter

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004811

Keywords

MeSH

Medical Subject Headings Check Words

Child; Child, Preschool; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn;

PICOs

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

The PICO model is widely used and taught in evidence-based health care as a strategy for formulating questions and search strategies and for characterizing clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome.

See more on using PICO in the Cochrane Handbook.

Table 1. Association for the Care of Children's Health: Elements of Family‐Centered Care

Elements of FCC

Evaluative Items

Recognising the family as a constant in the child's life

1. Family as the principle context for the provision of a child's health care

Facilitating parent‐professional collaboration at all levels of health care

2. Promoting and utilizing parent‐professional collaboration and partnerships

Honouring the racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of families

3. Respect for family diversity

Recognizing family strengths and individuality and respecting different methods of coping

4. Recognising the strengths and capabilities of families

5. Recognising different methods of family coping

Sharing complete and unbiased information with families on a continuous basis

6. Complete sharing of all relevant information with families

Encouraging and facilitating family‐to‐family support and networking

7.Promoting parent‐to‐parent and family‐to‐family support

Responding to child and family developmental needs as part of health care practices

8. Attention to the developmental needs of children and families as part of health care delivery

Adopting policies and practices that provide families with emotional and financial support

9. Recognising and responding to family emotional needs

10. Recognising and responding to family financial needs

Designing health care that is flexible, culturally competent, and responsive to family needs

11. Flexible delivery of health care to children and their families

12. Culturally‐competent delivery of health care

13. Recognising and responding to family‐identified needs

Figures and Tables -
Table 1. Association for the Care of Children's Health: Elements of Family‐Centered Care
Table 2. Family‐Centred Care Clustered Rating Scale

RATING

0

1

2

3

4

Cluster 1: Family as a constant

Family as a constant in child's life

Recognising family strengths

Parent/professional collaboration

Needs‐based family support

Flexible provision of health care

Sharing information with families

Cluster 2: Culturally responsive

Culturally‐competent health care

Respecting family diversity

Providing financial support

Cluster 3: Supporting family individuality

Respecting family coping methods

Providing emotional support

Family‐to‐family support

Attending to the developmental needs of children and families

TOTAL SCORE

Figures and Tables -
Table 2. Family‐Centred Care Clustered Rating Scale