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Parents' and Staff Perceptions of Parental Needs During a Child's Hospital Admission: An Australian Study
Mandie Foster1, Lisa Whitehead2, Diana Arabiat3
1Edith Cowan University, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Perth, WA, Australia.
Insights
Parent and staff perceptions of hospital needs align on importance but differ on fulfillment. Understanding demographic influences is key for effective family-centered care delivery.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Healthcare
- Family-Centered Care
- Patient Needs Assessment
Background:
- Hospital admissions significantly impact parents and children.
- Understanding parental needs is crucial for effective healthcare delivery.
- Family-centered care (FCC) principles emphasize involving families in care decisions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify parents' and staff perceptions of parental needs during pediatric hospital admissions.
- To examine relationships between perceived needs and socio-demographic/clinical variables.
- To inform improvements in family-centered healthcare practices.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional descriptive study design.
- Utilized the Needs of Parents' Questionnaire.
- Involved 46 parents and 17 staff from a pediatric ward in Western Australia.
Main Results:
- Parent and staff perceptions of need importance were congruent.
- Discrepancies observed between parents and staff regarding needs being met and needed.
- Parents rated needs as less important, more met, and more needed than staff.
- Demographic characteristics significantly influenced perceptions of parental needs.
Conclusions:
- Healthcare staff must recognize how patient trajectory and demographics affect parental needs.
- Aligning care delivery with parents' stated needs is essential for effective FCC.
- Further research is needed to broaden the understanding and application of FCC principles.
Purpose:
This study aimed to identify parents' and staff perceptions of parents' needs during a hospital admission and relationships between needs, socio-demographic and clinical variables.
Design And Methods:
A cross-sectional descriptive design. Forty-six parents whose child received care and 17 staff who worked within a paediatric ward at a secondary hospital in Western Australia completed the Needs of Parents' Questionnaire in 2016.
Results:
Parent and staff perceptions of the importance of needs were congruent but differences arose between parents and staff on whether these needs were met and needed. Parents were more likely to rate needs as less important, more met and more needed than staff members. Demographic characteristics significantly influenced parents' and staff perceptions of parents' needs in hospital.
Conclusions:
Staff need to acknowledge that the parent and child's hospital trajectory and demographical characteristics can influence the parent and child's needs in hospital. For family centred healthcare delivery to be effective, care delivery needs to be aligned to what parents and children state their needs are at that time.
Practice Implications:
This study has highlighted that future international collaborative research networks are needed to critique the concepts and clinical implications of FCC from a broader lens and recipients, deliverers and providers of healthcare need to be cognisance of contemporary FCC literature.