Clinical trial NCT06171672: The Lived Experience of Pediatric Nurse-caregiver Relationship in the PICU: a Descriptive Phenomenological Study
Official title: The Lived Experience of Pediatric Nurse-caregiver Relationship in the PICU: a Descriptive Phenomenological Study
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Intensive Care Units, Pediatric
Keywords: Nurse experience
PICU
Semi structured interview
Lead sponsor: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-12-15
Enrollment: 10
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Full-time registered nurse who has worked in Hong Kong with experience interating with caregives in NICU/PICU will be recruited.

Brief summary: The goal of this qualitative study is to make exploration in the lived experience of pediatric nurse-caregiver relationship in the PICU. The main question it aims to answer is:

• What is the meaning of nurse-caregiver relationship among pediatric intensive care nurses in Hong Kong

Participants will be invited to undergo individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews.

Detailed description: Pediatric intensive care nurses care not only for critically ill children but also for their caregivers. Under unfamiliar and critical situations, caregivers demand nursing care to ease their negative emotions and to cope. Pediatric intensive care nurse is the bridge to connect the healthcare team to the caregivers in the pediatric intensive care units (PICU). Previous literature discussed the relationship between nurses and family caregivers as therapeutic and meaningful, which consisted of elements like mutual respect, empathy, support, and more. Nurses' and family caregivers' roles shifted and changed in different times and settings. However, the relationship between the two had not been acknowledged in the PICU context. A review of the literature showed that the interaction between the pediatric intensive care nurse and the family caregivers involved six elements. Consequently, a conceptual framework was developed which may help represent the essence of the nurse-caregiver relationship.

This study aims to explore the lived experience as to the meaning of nurse-caregiver relationship among pediatric intensive care nurses in Hong Kong. Descriptive phenomenological approach will be adopted to gain an accurate and unbiased description of the lived experience. An estimated ten pediatric intensive care nurses in Hong Kong will be invited to undergo individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Hence to obtain pediatric intensive care nurses' detailed information so as to reveal the essence of Nurse-Caregiver Relationship in PICU.

Data will be analyzed using Colaizzi's seven-step strategy as it aligns with the study aim and is able to obtain the meaning of experience. This qualitative study may disclose the nurse-caregiver relationship and the complex nursing relationship role in the context of PICU in Hong Kong and allow clinical reasoning to improve FCC via understanding pediatric intensive care nurses' experience.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* any full-time registered nurse in any hospital in Hong Kong
* interacted with the caregivers of NICU/PICU patients in the last 12 months
* with at least 12 months' experience in NICU/PICU
* able to speak in Cantonese and read Chinese
* being willing to articulate their feelings and experiences

Exclusion Criteria:

* Part-time registered nurses
* student nurses
* enrolled nurses

Primary outcomes:
measure: Semi-structured interview
timeFrame: Data collection and analysis will be done simultaneously at day 1
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Locations:
city: Hong Kong
country: Hong Kong
facility: Katherine Lam
state: Hong Kong,China
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