Parent and health care provider communication and decision making in the intensive care nursery

Parent and health care provider communication and decision making in the intensive care nursery

Abel-Boone H; Dokecki PR; Smith MS

Children's Health Care

1989

Humans; infant; United States; Intensive Care Units; Attitude to Health; Parents; Professional-Family Relations; Communication; Neonatal; Interviews; decision making; Newborn; ICU Decision Making; social support; Best Practices (Davies); Life Support Care/psychology

This study investigated parents' and health care providers' perspectives of their communicative interactions when a seriously ill infant is treated in an intensive care nursery. Both parents and health care providers stressed the importance of keeping parents informed of their child's condition. Concerns regarding the provision of medical information to parents in an understandable manner, the lack of time health care providers have to spend interacting with parents, and the possibility that parents' emotional involvement interferes with their understanding of the child's condition were raised. Implications for pediatric health care providers relative to their interactions with parents of young chronically ill children are raised.

1989

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