Perceptions of Nurses, Patients, and Family Members on Rooming-In in Adult Care: A Cross Sectional Survey Study.
Carmen E J de Vries, Marianne J E van der Heijden, Anne M Eskes and 2 others
PMID 40838624WHAT IT FOUND
Nurses, patients, and family members mostly viewed adult hospital rooming-in positively, but many family members reported physical and emotional burden and worse sleep.
Unclear rules and uncomfortable facilities were common problems.
Key findings
01Nurses generally viewed rooming-in positively but said policies and indications were unclear.
02Patients and family members both rated satisfaction with rooming-in median 8, and paired satisfaction scores did not differ significantly.
03Family members reported physical burden (65.8%), emotional burden (45.7%), and worse sleep in hospital (71.4%).
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What it does not show
The survey design asked only one open question of nurses and gave limited room for comments from patients and family members, so perceptions were shallow. Nurse data were collected in 2018-2019 just after the new single rooms opened, while patient and family data were collected in 2021 after rooming-in had been in place for about three years. The study was done in one university hospital in the Netherlands using convenience sampling, so it may not apply to other settings. The patient and family sample was small, with 26 patients and 35 family members, and recruitment was reduced by pandemic restrictions. Sex data were missing for 10 family members, and paired satisfaction analysis included only 16 patient-family pairs. The study measured perceptions, not objective patient outcomes, nurse workload, or causal effects of rooming-in.
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The supplied text does not state a funding source.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that rooming-in improves patient recovery or reduces nurse workload. This was a cross-sectional survey of perceptions, not a trial testing patient or staff outcomes.