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Descriptions and Practices of Family Engagement in Emergency Care Setting
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Nurse Interview, Family Interview.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Emergency Care. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Descriptions and Practices of Family Engagement in Emergency Care Setting: An International, Multisite Qualitative- Descriptive Study
Overview
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe nurses' perceptions of their levels and practices of family engagement in Emergency Departments and the experiences of family members in delivery of Emergency Department care.
Interventions
- Other Nurse Interview
Nurses who consent to participate in the study will be asked to partake in an interview that will include questions such as "Please describe how you work with families", "What do you do to engage families?", or "What promotes or hinders family engagement in your ED". - Other Family Interview
Family members who consent to participate in the study will be asked to partake in an interview and will be asked "What has it been like to be in the ED with your family member?"
Primary outcome measures
- Number of family member participants [Time frame: Baseline]
- Number of nursing participants [Time frame: Baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Nurses: Registered professional nurses, including those with a diploma, associate's degree, and baccalaureate degrees, who are in charge of the plan of care for the ED patient.
- Nurses who have been working in that particular ED environment for at least 6 months.
- Nurses involved in providing direct patient care (not managers).
- Nurses who are employed by the institution of the research study, not agency staff.
- Family Members: a family member who expressed a sense of belonging to a patient admitted to the ED, or a person that a communicating patient had defined as family or being significant to the patient.
- Family members who are present with a patient who is being seen in the ED for acute or chronic illness (1 family member to participate per patient).
- Age 18 years or older
- Able to speak and read in English (for the United States sample)
Exclusion criteria
- Nurses not caring for patients in the ED
- Family members who are not present in the ED with the patient.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Ecologic or community
Study locations
United States · 3 centers
- Mayo Clinic Health System Mankato Emergency Department — Mankato
- Mayo Clinic Emergency Department — Rochester
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — Bennington
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07739576 · 25-012667