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- Title
Influence of multidisciplinary team care with abundant nurse staffing on patient-reported outcomes among patients with inflammatory bowel disease in clinical remission.
- Authors
Tanaka, Makoto; Kawakami, Aki; Sakagami, Kayoko; Terai, Tomoko; ito, Hiroaki
- Abstract
Background: Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experience difficulties in daily life and demanding self-care needs. The goal of our support for patients is to ease their difficulties and improve their belief in their capacity to self-manage their disease (self-efficacy), by increasing their ability for self-care. The nurse's contribution is vital in empowering patients and supporting them to better manage their disease. There is evidence that higher nurse staffing levels are associated with better patient outcomes in acute care settings, but little is known about the outpatient setting. The objective of this study was to explore the impact of multidisciplinary team care with abundant nurse staffing levels on patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) among patients with IBD, encompassing Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), in clinical remission. Methods: Patients with IBD in clinical remission were included because disease activity influences the patient's subjective evaluation. A total of 499 valid responses from two different sources were analyzed: 318 from a specialized IBD clinic with abundant nurse staffing and a multidisciplinary care team (UC: 83, CD: 235) and 181 from an online survey panel (UC: 109, CD: 72). The IBD Self-Efficacy Scale (IBD-SES) and the difficulty of life scale (DLS) were used as disease-specific PROMs. Results: In two multiple regression models adjusted by background characteristics (age, sex, diagnosis [UC/CD], employment status, use of biologics, and disease duration) using the IBD-SES or DLS as a dependent variable, the responses from clinic patients showed a more favorable score (higher self-efficacy or lower difficulty) than the online responses. Conclusions: Multidisciplinary team care with abundant nurse staffing may improve self-efficacy and ease difficulties of life among patients with IBD in clinical remission. These results could help bring attention to nurse staffing in an outpatient setting, which has previously been overlooked, and be the first to provide evidence of its importance in encouraging enhanced staffing levels.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATORY bowel diseases; HEALTH care teams; DISEASE remission; CROHN'S disease; PATIENT reported outcome measures; NURSE-patient ratio
- Publication
Health & Quality of Life Outcomes, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1477-7525
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12955-024-02247-w