The Family Role During Patient’s Hospitalization
Family has a significant role in hospital treatment of patients, since it can provide effective psychological and emotional support to patients undergoing treatment to hospital. Additionally, the above role of family is not only significant for adults but also for children and pregnant women, who need their husbands during their childbirth. Consequently, the medical and nursing staff needs to maintain a continuous contact with parents and relatives of patients, and provide them with the appropriate information concerning the condition of their patient and the progress of the therapeutic programme.
Moreover, the role of family, friends, and relatives is of vital importance for the maintenance of quality of life in hospitalized patients with chronic problems. This, because family can satisfy basic needs of the patient in the hospital to a large extent. Additionally, family can help him decrease his stress, while it can encourage him to correspond effectively in the therapeutic form he follows.
The reciprocal effect takes place because family is a social system, which is constituted by individuals interacting with each other. Thus, any change in the system influences its stability. Since family constitutes a system, illness of a member of the system has a direct effect on all the system. Moreover, the way that the system reacts has a direct effect on the member that suffers. Consequently, the more effectively the system functions, the better its members are adapted. For this reason, all the members of family need to adapt to various problems of patients, in order to provide them with effective psychological and emotional support.
Adaptado de: https://www.hsj.gr/medicine/the-contribution-of-family-
in-the-care-of-patient-in-the-hospital.php?aid=3681> Acessado em
05 de junho de 2021.
