Table 1 Parent Perspectives on Care.

From: Nurse and parent perspectives of a neonatal intensive care unit redesign from open-bay to single-family rooms

Domains

Variable (N)

OPBY Design

SFR Design

OPBY Design

SFR Design

p value*

% Very Good

% Very Good

Mdn Score out of 5.00 (IQR)

Mdn Score out of 5.00 (IQR)

Overall Assessment

Overall rating of care given at hospital (N = 88)

72.73

57.58

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (1.00)

0.208

Likelihood of your recommending this hospital to others (N = 89)

67.86

60.61

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (1.00)

0.467

Nursing Care

Skill of the nurses (N = 88)

65.45

60.61

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (1.00)

0.611

Nurses’ promptness in responding to alarms (N = 88)

60.00

45.45

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (2.00)

0.096

Amount of attention paid to your special or personal needs (N = 87)

74.07

51.52

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (1.00)

0.052

Physician Care

Skill of physician (N = 87)

62.50

51.61

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (1.00)

0.491

Time physician spent with you (N = 86)

53.70

37.50

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (2.00)

0.060

Inclusiveness/Responsiveness

Staff effort to include you in decisions about your treatment (N = 87)

53.70

45.45

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (2.00)

0.270

Response to concerns/complaints made during your stay (N = 86)

51.85

43.75

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (1.50)

0.352

Degree to which hospital staff addressed your emotional needs (N = 89)

57.14

51.52

5.00 (1.00)

5.00 (2.00)

0.526

Degree to which hospital staff addressed your spiritual needs (N = 76)

57.14

44.44

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (2.00)

0.253

Wait Time

Waiting time for tests or treatments (N = 87)

54.55

50.00

5.00 (1.00)

4.50 (1.00)

0.750

Waiting time for results from your tests (N = 86)

54.55

38.71

5.00 (1.00)

4.00 (1.00)

0.282

  1. * Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests were used to compare ordinal level dependent variables from parents whose neonate received care in the OPBY design to those who received care in the SFR.