Abstract
Abstract Objectives: To characterize the attitudes of nurses working in primary health care on the importance of involving families in nursing care to the person with mental disorder. Method: A cross - sectional descriptive study with a quantitative approach performed with 328 nurses who work in primary health care in Porto, Portugal. Families Importance in Nursing Care - Nurses Attitudes (FINC-NA) scale was applied. Results: Scale scores were elevated, mean value was 85.9 (Maximum possible 104). The significant correlations were with the variables: academic qualifications (p = 0.001), specialization (p = 0.002) and professional activity context (p = 0.001). Conclusion and implications for practice: Nurses demonstrate a high degree of agreement about the importance of families in nursing care to the person with mental disorder. Positive attitudes of nurses regarding the importance of involving families in care are fundamental to enhance the quality of care in the presence of mental disorder.
Highlights
Many of the people who experience mental disorders are supported by the family.[1,2,3,4] Members of a family provide a substantial quantity of care,[1,5,6] and the involvement of family members in the assistance of persons with a mental disorder is clinically relevant, because it improves the quality of the health care.[7]
The attitudes adopted by the nurses in relation to the family will determine the care process.[13]. Being aware of this need, we developed this way, and, there are studies conducted into the attitudes towards families in several contexts,[7,14,15] few is directed to the person with mental disorder.[16,17]
The scores obtained present values between 49 and 104, it should be recalled that the possible scores of the scale vary between 26 and 104 (Table 2), and the mean value is 85.9, present a mean of 77, mode of 86 and a standard deviation of 9.6
Summary
Many of the people who experience mental disorders are supported by the family.[1,2,3,4] Members of a family provide a substantial quantity of care,[1,5,6] and the involvement of family members in the assistance of persons with a mental disorder is clinically relevant, because it improves the quality of the health care.[7] Know the links and the social support networks, namely the family, are facilitation strategies enlarger of mental health actions, the family should be understood as a partner in facing and experiencing the mental disorder.[4]. There was an understanding that the family was in its own essential a disease generator.[2] The paradigm change in the mental health care intended for community states that a greater emphasis should be placed on the family's involvement,[5] and this family should be considered as an indispensable social actor for care effectiveness.[2,8,9,10]
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