Family member experience with restricted family presence in Canadian PICUs: an interpretive descriptive study
• Parental presence with critically ill children may improve health outcomes for patients and their families. • Restrictions to family presence in PICUs continue to occur internationally and, during COVID-19, resulted in parental isolation, anxiety, and increased stress. What is new: • By isolating family members and removing supports, COVID-19-related restrictions in Canadian PICUs challenged family members' ability to fulfil their parent roles while meeting their own needs. • Families need empathetic, advocacy-based approaches from clinicians and healthcare systems to maintain trust and therapeutic relationships in a family-centered organization.
Authors
- Laurie A. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0008-393X)
- Corey Slumkoski
- Janet Curran (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-0467)
- Martha Walls
- Katie O’Hearn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1149-2843)
- Jamie A. Seabrook (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-6450)
- Molly Ryan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-9359)
- Jeannette Comeau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2132-674X)
- Karen Choong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4608-4508)
- Daniel Garros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3331-7947)
- Adedayo Tunde Ajidahun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5265-4212)
- Kirsten Marie Fiest (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7299-6594)
- Patrícia S. Fontela (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0134-7845)
- Srinivas Murthy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9476-839X)
- Laura J. Betts
- Stacy A. Burgess
- Jennifer Foster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8919-9383)
- Sangeeta Mehta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7073-4769)
- Neda Moghadam
Institutions
- Western University (CA)
- Dalhousie University (CA)
- Capital District Health Authority (CA)
- Lawson Health Research Institute (CA)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre (CA)
- Alberta Children's Hospital (CA)
- AIDS Vancouver (CA)
- Stollery Children's Hospital (CA)
- Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Pediatrics
- Published
- 2024-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-024-05854-3
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.90
Funders
- University of Ottawa
- McGill University
- McMaster University
- Dalhousie University
- University of Toronto
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research