A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role
<p style="text-align:justify;"> <b> Background:</b> Long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are growing challenges for health services. Psychosocial co-morbidity is associated with poorer quality of life and greater use of health care in...
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| author | Langer, S Chew-Graham, C Drinkwater, J Afzal, C Keane, K Hunter, C Guthrie, E Salmon, P |
| author_facet | Langer, S Chew-Graham, C Drinkwater, J Afzal, C Keane, K Hunter, C Guthrie, E Salmon, P |
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| description | <p style="text-align:justify;"> <b> Background:</b> Long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are growing challenges for health services. Psychosocial co-morbidity is associated with poorer quality of life and greater use of health care in these patients but is often un-diagnosed or inadequately treated in primary care, where most care for these patients is provided. We developed a brief intervention, delivered by ‘liaison health workers’ (LHWs), to address psychosocial needs in the context of an integrated approach to physical and mental health. We report a qualitative study in which we characterize the intervention through the experience of the patients receiving it and examine how it was incorporated into primary care.<br/><br/> <b>Methods:</b> Qualitative study using patient and practice staff informants. We audio-recorded interviews with 29 patients offered the intervention (three had declined it or withdrawn) and 13 practice staff (GPs, nurses and administrators). Analysis used a constant comparative approach.<br/><br/> <b>Results:</b> Most patients were enthusiastic about the LHWs, describing the intervention as mobilizing their motivation for self-management. By contrast with other practitioners, patients experienced the LHWs as addressing their needs holistically, being guided by patient needs rather than professional agendas, forming individual relationships with patients and investing in patients and their capacity to change. Practices accommodated and accepted the LHWs, but positioned them as peripheral to and separate from the priority of physical care.<br/><br/> <b>Conclusions:</b> Despite being a short-term intervention, patients described it as having enduring motivational benefits. The elements of the intervention that patients described map onto the key features of motivating interventions described by Self-Determination Theory. We suggest that the LHWs motivated patients to self-management by: (i) respecting patients’ competence to decide on needs and priorities; (ii) forming relationships with patients as individuals; and (iii) fostering patients’ sense of autonomy. While truly integrated primary care for patients with long-term conditions such as COPD remains elusive, existing practice staff might adopt elements of the LHWs’ approach to enhance motivational change in patients with long-term conditions such as COPD. </p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0d36846f-1a71-473c-aa52-085bf5d6ddf02022-03-26T09:39:16ZA motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner roleJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0d36846f-1a71-473c-aa52-085bf5d6ddf0EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordBioMed Central2014Langer, SChew-Graham, CDrinkwater, JAfzal, CKeane, KHunter, CGuthrie, ESalmon, P <p style="text-align:justify;"> <b> Background:</b> Long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are growing challenges for health services. Psychosocial co-morbidity is associated with poorer quality of life and greater use of health care in these patients but is often un-diagnosed or inadequately treated in primary care, where most care for these patients is provided. We developed a brief intervention, delivered by ‘liaison health workers’ (LHWs), to address psychosocial needs in the context of an integrated approach to physical and mental health. We report a qualitative study in which we characterize the intervention through the experience of the patients receiving it and examine how it was incorporated into primary care.<br/><br/> <b>Methods:</b> Qualitative study using patient and practice staff informants. We audio-recorded interviews with 29 patients offered the intervention (three had declined it or withdrawn) and 13 practice staff (GPs, nurses and administrators). Analysis used a constant comparative approach.<br/><br/> <b>Results:</b> Most patients were enthusiastic about the LHWs, describing the intervention as mobilizing their motivation for self-management. By contrast with other practitioners, patients experienced the LHWs as addressing their needs holistically, being guided by patient needs rather than professional agendas, forming individual relationships with patients and investing in patients and their capacity to change. Practices accommodated and accepted the LHWs, but positioned them as peripheral to and separate from the priority of physical care.<br/><br/> <b>Conclusions:</b> Despite being a short-term intervention, patients described it as having enduring motivational benefits. The elements of the intervention that patients described map onto the key features of motivating interventions described by Self-Determination Theory. We suggest that the LHWs motivated patients to self-management by: (i) respecting patients’ competence to decide on needs and priorities; (ii) forming relationships with patients as individuals; and (iii) fostering patients’ sense of autonomy. While truly integrated primary care for patients with long-term conditions such as COPD remains elusive, existing practice staff might adopt elements of the LHWs’ approach to enhance motivational change in patients with long-term conditions such as COPD. </p> |
| spellingShingle | Langer, S Chew-Graham, C Drinkwater, J Afzal, C Keane, K Hunter, C Guthrie, E Salmon, P A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title | A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title_full | A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title_fullStr | A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title_full_unstemmed | A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title_short | A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
| title_sort | motivational intervention for patients with copd in primary care qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role |
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