Introduction: The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a treatment that can cause feelings of stress, anxiety, fear not only to the patient but also to the patient's family. The unfamiliar environment, intensive space regulation, changes in emotional status, and changes in daily activities are some of the factors that cause stress in the ICU patient's family. The purpose of this study is to reveal the experiences of families in facing hospitalization in intensive care units based on empirical studies in the last five years.Methods:Journal searches use indexed databases Scopus, Proquest, ScienceDirect and PubMed using keywords: hospitalitation, family, critical patient, icu. The Center for Review and Dissemination and The Joanna Briggs Institute was used to assess the quality of the study. The framework used is PICOS with inclusion criteria, namely journals in English and Indonesian, published years 2015 to 2020. Analyzes and tabulation of data on articles or journals, titles, abstracts, full text and methodology are assessed to determine the eligibility of articles or journals.Result:The family's experience in dealing with critical patient hospitalization in the ICU care room has an impact on the family who treats these patients both physically and psychologically. During patient hospitalization, the family plays a role in providing care, compassion, creating security and privacy, advocating for and ensuring that patients receive good care.Conclusion: The experience of hospitalization can disrupt the client's psychology and psychosocial condition, especially if the client is unable to adapt to his new environment at the hospital. published years 2015 to 2020. Analyzes and tabulation of data on articles or journals, titles, abstracts, full text and methodology are assessed to determine the eligibility of articles or journals