Visiting hour’s policies in Intensive Care Units: Exploring participants’ views
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (IJMRHS) - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
Visiting patients is a positive and effective strategy to help patients and their families to adapt better with stress and crisis of Intensive Care Units. This study designed with the aim of "exploring the perception of patients, families and staff of Intensive Care Units about visiting hour’s policiesâ€. In this qualitative study, the perspective of 51 participants including patients, their families and staff regarding “Visitation Policies†investigated using semistructured interviews. Conventional content analysis method used. Two categories of restricted and non-restricted visitation obtained from the data. Based on the comments received from participants, fourteen subcategories including advantages and disadvantages of visitations obtained from both restricted and non-restricted visitation categories. Restricted visitation is a policy of visitation that allows the visitor to be present in a specified time while non-restricted visitation is a kind of respect for the wishes and needs of patients and families. It is recommended that with more studies, the foundation of visitations should be established in a way that harmonious balance between the concerns of patients and families on one hand and concerns of staff on the other hand should be obtained.
Authors and Affiliations
Shiva Khaleghparast| PhD Candidate, Nursing Care Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Soodabeh Joolaee| Associate Professor, Nursing Care Research Center, Nursing and Midwifery School, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Correspondence E-mail: sjoolaee@yahoo.com, Majid Maleki| Professor, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Hamid Peyrovi| Professor, Nursing Care Research Center, Nursing and Midwifery School, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Behrooz Ghanbari| PhD, Gastrointestinal and liver Diseases Research Center, Firoozgar Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Naser Bahrani| MSc, Faculty Member, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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