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- Title
Putting weight‐related conversations into practice: Lessons learned from implementing a knowledge translation casebook in a disability context.
- Authors
Provvidenza, Christine F.; Bonder, Revi; McPherson, Amy C.
- Abstract
Background: Due to reported challenges experienced by healthcare providers (HCPs) when having weight‐related conversations with children with disabilities and their families, a knowledge translation (KT) casebook was developed, providing key communication principles with supportive resources. Our aim was to explore how the KT casebook could be implemented into a disability context. Study objectives were to develop and integrate needs‐based implementation supports to help foster the uptake of the KT casebook communication principles. Methods: A sample of nurses, physicians, occupational therapists and physical therapists were recruited from a Canadian paediatric rehabilitation hospital. Informed by the Theoretical Domains Framework, group interviews were conducted with participants to understand barriers to having weight‐related conversations in their context. Implementation strategies were developed to deliver the KT casebook content that addressed these identified barriers, which included an education workshop, simulations, printed materials, and a huddle and email strategy. Participant experiences with the implementation supports were captured through workshop evaluations, pre‐post surveys and qualitative interviews. Post‐implementation interviews were analysed using descriptive content analysis. Results: Ten HCPs implemented the KT casebook principles over 6 months. Participants reported that the workshop provided a clear understanding of the KT casebook content. While HCPs appreciated the breadth of the KT casebook, they found the abbreviated printed educational materials more convenient. Strategies developed to address participants' need for a sense of community and opportunities to learn from each other did not achieve their aim. Increased confidence in integrating the KT casebook principles into practice was not demonstrated, due, in part, to having few opportunities to practice. This was partly because of the increase in competing clinical demands at the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Conclusions: Despite positive feedback on the product itself, changes in the organisational and environmental context limited the success of the implementation plan. Monitoring and adapting implementation processes in response to unanticipated changes is critical to the success of implementation efforts.
- Subjects
CANADA; HEALTH literacy; PATIENTS' families; NURSES; HUMAN services programs; CHILDREN with disabilities; MEDICAL personnel; CONVERSATION; RESEARCH funding; REHABILITATION nursing; QUALITATIVE research; BODY weight; HOSPITAL nursing staff; INTERVIEWING; CONTENT analysis; TEACHING aids; CHILDREN'S hospitals; PRINT materials; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CONFIDENCE; REHABILITATION centers; SIMULATION methods in education; EMAIL; PRE-tests &; post-tests; PATIENT-professional relations; CONCEPTUAL structures; ADULT education workshops; COMMUNICATION; NEEDS assessment; SOCIAL support; PHYSICIANS; MEDICAL practice; COVID-19 pandemic; OBESITY
- Publication
Child: Care, Health & Development, 2024, Vol 50, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0305-1862
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cch.13257