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Anna Drakenberg1,2, MiaLinn Arvidsson-Lindvall3, Elisabeth Ericsson1
1Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.
Purpose:
The overall aim of this study was to describe the attitudes towards family involvement in care held by nurses and medical doctors working in open-heart surgical care and the factors influencing these attitudes.
Methods:
Mixed-methods convergent parallel design. A web-based survey was completed by nurses (n = 267) using the Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses Attitudes (FINC-NA) instrument and two open-ended questions, generating one quantitative and one qualitative dataset. Qualitative interviews with medical doctors (n = 20) were conducted in parallel, generating another qualitative dataset. Data were analysed separately according to each paradigm and then merged into mixed-methods concepts. Meta-inferences of these concepts were discussed.
Results:
The nurses reported positive attitudes in general. The two qualitative datasets from nurses and medical doctors resulted in the identification of seven generic categories. The main mixed-methods finding was the attitude that the importance of family involvement in care depends on the situation.
Conclusions:
The dependence of family involvement on the situation may be due to the patient's and family's unique needs. If professionals' attitudes rather than the family's needs and preferences determine how the family is involved, care runs the risk of being unequal.
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