title: Inpatient Psychiatric Care: Families' Expectations and Perceptions of Support Received From Health Professionals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this paper was to identify challenges of families caring for loved ones prior to inpatient psychiatric care, understand families' perceptions of support received from psychiatric health professionals, and identify ways for professionals to support families.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Families experienced many challenges prior to hospital admission. There was a large gap between families' expectations and perceptions of actual support received by psychiatric health professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses are well positioned to educate, advocate, and support overburdened families. Greater knowledge of families' challenges would enable nurses to anticipate and meet their needs.
authors.affiliation: Doris I. Miller, MN, RN, is a Nursing Educator, Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
authors.forename: Doris I
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations
keywords: Family; health professional; mental illness; support