Table 2.

The summary of the reviewed articles about family centered care concept in neonatal intensive care unit

Author	Attributes	Antecedents	Consequences
Trajkovski et al., 201215	Family centered care in NICU is a method to provide healthcare for neonates and their families. These cares should be planned for all family members.	Changing nurses’ role from a skillful one into a guide, system design, use of policies, staff’s education, multi-disciplinary approach application, limitless contact, providing care for neonates and families, nurses’ need assessment, developing efficient and trust-based communication, family participation in daily cares, data exchange, guiding the family, guiding the staff, supporting nurses, nurse commitment	Promoting neonates’ health criteria, power improvement, increasing parents’ ability in taking care of neonates, staff’s professional improvement, reinforcing neonate-parents contact, successful performance of Kangaroo care plan
White, 201016		Providing a single room for family, making policies, enough space, providing more expert staff and financial sources.	Improving parents’ interaction with neonate, infection control, discharging the neonate sooner than usual, affecting neonates’ brain development, increasing parents and staff satisfaction, parents’ competence in care giving to neonate, feeling of being at one’s own home, reducing healthcare expenses, improving safety.
Hedbeg and Egvall, 20095]		Parents’ feeling of responsibility, providing policies, considering a single room for parents and their baby, improving individual care attitude in parents, gradual education of parents regarding care, changing nurses’ role from care providers into trainers, providing weekly care plans, parents’ right to choose.	Increasing neonate-parents attachment, feeling of intimacy towards the neonate.
Griffin 200617	Family-centered care in NICU is an approach to planning, implementing, and evaluating healthcare which is formed on the basis of participation of different health and family professions. Its four basic principles are dignity and respect, information exchange, family participation in care, and family cooperation.	Existence of family centered care philosophy statement and outlook, single room, improving nurses’ communication skills, presence of parents in all conditions, encouraging the parents, educating the parents on neonatal care skills.	Decreasing parents’ stress, increasing mothers’ self esteem, promoting neonate’s health, improvement of parental process, reinforcing parents’ mood, inducing a sense of control in parents.
Van Riper 20013	Family-centered care in NICU is an interaction among family members, nurses, doctors, and other health providers.	Cooperation among family members and healthcare providers, reporting neonate’s condition to parents, exchanging information about cares with parents, replying all parents’ questions, positive relationship between parents and healthcare team.	Parents’ mental health promotion, feeling of belonging to NICU, parents’ trust in healthcare providers.