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- Title
Professional training on shared decision making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders: a mixed-methods implementation study.
- Authors
Lawani, Moulikatou Adouni; Côté, Luc; Coudert, Laetitia; Morin, Michèle; Witteman, Holly O.; Caron, Danielle; Kroger, Edeltraut; Voyer, Philippe; Rodriguez, Charo; Légaré, France; Giguere, Anik M. C.
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Shared decision making with older adults living with neurocognitive disorders is challenging for primary healthcare professionals. We studied the implementation of a professional training program featuring an e-learning activity on shared decision making and five Decision Boxes on the care of people with neurocognitive disorders, and measured the program's effects.<bold>Methods: </bold>In this mixed-methods study, we recruited healthcare professionals in family medicine clinics and homecare settings in the Quebec City area (Canada). The professionals signed up for training as a continuing professional development activity and answered an online survey before and after training to assess their knowledge, and intention to adopt shared decision making. We recorded healthcare professionals' access to each training component, and conducted telephone interviews with a purposeful sample of extreme cases: half had completed training and the other half had not. We performed bivariate analyses with the survey data and a thematic qualitative analysis of the interviews, as per the theory of planned behaviour.<bold>Results: </bold>Of the 47 participating healthcare professionals, 31 (66%) completed at least one training component. Several factors restricted participation, including lack of time, training fragmentation into several components, poor adaptation of training to specific professions, and technical/logistical barriers. Ease of access, ease of use, the usefulness of training content and the availability of training credits fostered participation. Training allowed Healthcare professionals to improve their knowledge about risk communication (p = 0.02), and their awareness of the options (P = 0.011). Professionals' intention to adopt shared decision making was high before training (mean ± SD = 5.88 ± 0.99, scale from 1 to 7, with 7 high) and remained high thereafter (5.94 ± 0.9).<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The results of this study will allow modifying the training program to improve participation rates and, ultimately, uptake of meaningful shared decision making with patients living with neurocognitive disorders.
- Subjects
QUEBEC (Quebec); DECISION making; OLDER people; MEDICAL personnel; PLANNED behavior theory; CAREER development; SHARED housing; RETIREMENT communities; COGNITIVE radio
- Publication
BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making, 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1472-6947
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12911-020-01197-9