Development and validation of an instrument to assess the implementation of family-centred care in traditional open bay Neonatal Intensive Care Units

ABSTRACT

Objective: To develop an instrument to study family-centred care (FCC) in traditional open bay Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs).

Methods: The development process involved constructing instrument's items, establishing content validity by an expert panel and testing the instrument for validity and reliability with a convenience sample of 25 parents and 29 nurses from 6 Jordanian NICUs. The tool covered FCC concepts of respect and dignity, information sharing, participation, and collaboration.

Results: Both forms have satisfactory content, discriminant and construct validity. Cronbach's alpha was 0.91 for the parents' form and 0.93 for the nurses' form. While there was variation in parents' and nurses' perspectives on some aspects of FCC, the overall perspective of parents in the current study did not reflect a good application of FCC.

Conclusion: This study led to the development of a validated instrument for face and content validity, construct (discriminant and convergent) validity and reliability.

KEYWORDS:

• Family-centred care
• neonatal care
• valid and reliable
• instrument
• development

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Dr Mohammad Al-Motlaq is an assistant Professor at the Department of Maternal Child and Family Health, Hashemite University.

Dr Jamila Abuidhail is an Associate Professor at the Department of Maternal Child and Family Health, Hashemite University.

Taghreed Salameh is a lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, Hashemite University.

Wesam Awwad is a clinical instructor at the Department of Maternal Child and Family Health, Hashemite.

Additional information

Funding

The project was funded by the Hashemite University Scientific Fund.