Objective:
The objective of this review is to conduct a mixed methods systematic review that examines the effectiveness and family experiences of interventions that promote partnerships between parents and the multidisciplinary healthcare team in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units.
Introduction:
The hospitalization of a child or infant in an intensive care unit can have considerable negative effects on them and their family. Family members can experience increased stress, anxiety or depression and detrimental impacts on quality of life and family functioning. Interventions that promote families as healthcare partners may improve negative outcomes arising from intensive care hospitalization.
Inclusion criteria:
The review will include family members of pediatric or neonatal patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit. It will focus on interventions that promote partnership between families and multidisciplinary healthcare teams in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units and the family’s experiences of these interventions. The outcomes of interest are stress, anxiety, depression, quality of life, family functioning, family empowerment, or satisfaction with family-centered care
Methods:
The proposed review will follow the JBI methodology for convergent segregated mixed methods systematic reviews. It will search for published and unpublished studies from 8 different sources. Studies will be reviewed by title and abstract and potentially includible studies will have full text retrieved for further review. Studies meeting the inclusion criteria will be assessed on methodological quality and have data extracted. Separate quantitative and qualitative analysis and synthesis will be performed and these will be juxtaposed and organized to present an overall analysis.
Systematic review registration number:
PROSPERO CRD42019137834
Correspondence: Shannon Barnes, Shannon.Barnes@adelaide.edu.au
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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