Key result
Nurse-led Family Health Conversations conducted by telephone were feasible for families and nurses, improving relationships, though nurses preferred fewer and shorter sessions.
Why the study?
Are nurse-led Family Health Conversations conducted by telephone feasible and beneficial for heart failure patients and their families?
Are nurse-led Family Health Conversations conducted by telephone feasible and beneficial for heart failure patients and their families?
Telephone-based Family Health Conversations are a feasible intervention in heart failure nursing care that can improve nurse-family relationships, though video telephony may be preferred to capture nonverbal communication.
May support nurse-led telephone family conversations in practice; leaves open optimal session frequency and duration.
Registered nurses (RNs) in heart failure (HF) nursing care have a key role in providing family support, which positively affects the outcome for the patient. Telephone interventions conducted by RNs have been reported to be successful in HF nursing care, but Family Health Conversations (FamHCs) involving the patient and the family, have not previously been tested. The purpose of the current study was to explore the experiences and feasibility of nurse-led FamHCs conducted by telephone with patients and their family caregivers. A single-group intervention study with a pretest-posttest design was conducted in three regional hospitals that had a nurse-led HF clinic. Five RNs, eight patients, and eight family caregivers participated. Three FamHCs were conducted by telephone with each family every 2 weeks. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected through semistructured interviews and questionnaires. FamHCs improved the nurse-family relationships and relationships within the families and provided RNs with new knowledge about the families. FamHCs conducted by telephone were considered to be feasible for both families and RNs, although RNs preferred fewer and shorter FamHCs. The RNs preferred meeting face-to-face with the families as nonverbal communication between the family members could be missed because of lack of visual input. On the other hand, RNs appreciated to focus entirely on the conversation without the need to perform illness-related routine checks. In conclusion, the advantages of FamHCs conducted by telephone outweighed the disadvantages. Visual contact, provided by video telephony, and a shorter version of the tested FamHC would facilitate the use in HF nursing care.
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Gusdal et al. (2018) studied Heart failure (n=21). Nurse-led Family Health Conversations (FamHCs) conducted by telephone was evaluated on Experiences and feasibility. Nurse-led Family Health Conversations conducted by telephone were feasible for families and nurses, improving relationships, though nurses preferred fewer and shorter sessions.
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