Background: Collaboration between therapists and parents of children with developmental disabilities is a key element of family-centred care. In practice, collaboration appears to be challenging for both parents and therapists. This systematic review aims to make explicit how therapists can optimise …

Background and purpose: Many older patients with cancer have their family members, often their adult children, involved in a process of treatment decision making. Despite the growing awareness that family members can facilitate a process of shared decision making (SDM), literature about SDM pays little …

BACKGROUND: Family engagement in care for adult inpatients may improve shared decision making in the hospital and the competence and preparedness of informal caregivers to take over the care at home. An important strategy to involve family members in hospital care processes is to include them in (ward) …

Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced family-centred care dramatically due to restricting visiting policies. In this new situation, nurses were challenged to develop new approaches to involve family members in patient care. A better understanding of these changes and the experiences …

Rationale: In order to target rehabilitation needs of survivors of critical illness and their relatives timely and adequately, a thorough needs assessment is recommended when hospital discharge planning is initiated. In light of existing evidence on physical and psychological consequences of critical …

Achtergrond: Family Centered Care is een belangrijk concept in de pediatrische zorgverlening. Een veel-omvattende definitie van Family Centered Care is: ‘’De professionele zorg en begeleiding voor het zieke kind en zijn/haar familie door middel van betrokkenheid, participatie en samenwerking, ondersteund …

Een onderzoek naar de toepassing van het gezinsgericht werken (family-centered care) door de maatschappelijk werkers in het Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis. De kansen, die er volgens de literatuur en betrokkenen zijn om het gezinsgericht werken in het maatschappelijk werk te optimaliseren, worden hier uitgelicht. …

This thesis focuses on the effectiveness of a family-centered approach (in Dutch “DMOprotocol”, further referred to as the family-centered approach), designed for monitoring and enhancing children’s social-emotional development in Preventive Child Healthcare (PCH). The effectiveness study took place …