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Families’ Experiences Living with Acquired Brain Injury: “Thinking Family”—A Nursing Pathway for Family-Centered Care

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  • Jane Karpa
  • Wanda Chernomas
  • Kerstin Roger
  • Tuula Heinonen

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The objective of this study was to examine families’ experiences living with acquired brain injury (ABI) using a research approach that included both the affected individual family member and the family together as a family group. A narrative inquiry study, informed by the life-stage approach of Lieblich, Tuval-Mashiach, and Zilber, was used to obtain family stories. Families experiencing an ABI event were purposefully selected from different regions in a western Canadian province. Centered on the life stages of before the ABI event, now living with the ABI, and the future, thematic findings included: Families, a grounding force; Losses, individual and family; Family adaptive capacities; Experiences with the healthcare system-hospital to home; and A patchwork future-entering the unknown. Themes affirmed the significant impacts of ABI on individual and family members and acknowledged ABI as an ambiguous loss event. The findings also illuminated families’ strengths and resiliencies in coping with living with ABI. The study results suggest by “ thinking family ” nurses can contribute towards a healthcare model that focuses on “family” as the central unit of care.

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  • Jane Karpa & Wanda Chernomas & Kerstin Roger & Tuula Heinonen, 2020. "Families’ Experiences Living with Acquired Brain Injury: “Thinking Family”—A Nursing Pathway for Family-Centered Care," Nursing Research and Practice, Hindawi, vol. 2020, pages 1-10, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlnrp:8866534
    DOI: 10.1155/2020/8866534
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    1. Irene De-Torres & Fernando Bustos & Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla & Pablo Fernández-Berrocal, 2022. "Training on Emotional Intelligence for Caregivers of Patients with Acquired Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment: A Quasi-Experimental Study," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(21), pages 1-11, October.
    2. Florian Allonsius & Arend de Kloet & Gary Bedell & Frederike van Markus-Doornbosch & Stefanie Rosema & Jorit Meesters & Thea Vliet Vlieland & Menno van der Holst, 2021. "Participation Restrictions among Children and Young Adults with Acquired Brain Injury in a Pediatric Outpatient Rehabilitation Cohort: The Patients’ and Parents’ Perspective," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-18, February.

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