Perspectives and Insights of Critical Care Clinicians, Patients and Families from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds Around End-of-life Care in an ICU: a Scoping Review Protocol

Overview

Journal BMJ Open

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2024 Nov 2

PMID 39488414

Authors

Krishnaswamy Sundararajan

Eamon Raith

Rebecca Hu

Raechel A Damarell

Ashwin Subramaniam

Natalie Anderson

Caroline Phelan

Affiliations

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Abstract

Objective: Protocol to explore what is known about communication between critical care providers and patients and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (defined as people who are either from minority ethnic groups, non-English-speaking backgrounds who may have diverse cultural, linguistic, spiritual and religious affiliations and opinions) about death, dying, end-of-life care and organ donation in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Introduction: Patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds experience barriers to optimised care when admitted to the ICU. These barriers appear to derive from differences in language, cultural, societal and ethical expectations between patients, their families and healthcare professionals. These barriers may significantly impact the delivery of end-of-life care to patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Therefore, this has the potential for inadequate management of medical, psychological and existential distress.

Inclusion Criteria: Studies of all designs reporting for adult (age ≥18 years) patients and family members from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds at end-of-life in the ICU setting will be included. Studies that report results for patients aged <18 years or that are based outside the ICU will be excluded.

Methods: Relevant sources will be retrieved, and their citation details will be imported into the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) System for the Unified Management, Assessment and Review of Information. This scoping review was guided by the JBI methodology for scoping reviews and reported in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. A systematic search was conducted in EBSCOhost, Web of Science, PubMed Central and SciELO, OVID Medline, CINAHL, and Scopus, limited to English-language publications, without date limitation. Key study characteristics and findings will be extracted using a data extraction tool developed by the reviewers. Anticipating heterogeneous study designs, findings will be presented as a thematic synthesis.

Ethics And Dissemination: This is a protocol for a scoping review, formal ethics approval from the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) of the Local Health Network will be obtained for research projects that could potentially stem from this review and will then be subsequently disseminated through proper channels.

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