The Effects of Education on Nurses’ Attitudes Towards Family-Centered Care in ICU Room Patients with Heart Failure

Abstract

People with heart failure need support and family presence to improve their quality of life. Nurses' views about family-centered care may be changed if they were taught about the idea and encouraged to support its implementation. In addition, families might provide help to ill relatives. This study aims to investigate the influence of education on nurses' attitudes about family-centered care for intensive care patients with heart failure. An experimental design with a pretestposttest control group was employed in this investigation. The experimental group received educational treatment in the form of booklet-based lectures. The participants in this study were 32 nurses from a Malang hospital's intensive care unit. In the experimental group, the Wilcoxon test indicated a significant difference in nurses' attitudes toward family-centered care (p-value 0.000), but no similar difference in the control group (p-value 0.083). The Mann Whitney test revealed that following instruction, nurses' views about family-centered care improved significantly in both the experimental and control groups (p-value 0.039). There is a significant effect of family centered care education on the attitude of nurses in the CVCU room for heart failure patients at Malang Hospital. Family-centered care in critical care from the perspective of nurses, education has an effect on people with heart failure.