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Saskia WM Weldam, Msc, RN , Jan-Willem J Lammers, PhD, MD ,X
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Marieke Zwakman, Msc, RN , Marieke J Schuurmans, PhD, RN
Department of Respiratory Diseases, Division Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, PO Box85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Department of Rehabilitation, Nursing Science & Sports, University Medical Center Utrecht, PO Box85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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3.1.2. Barriers
Education in
Nurses would like to be more
Table 2 Intervention is helpful in asking trained in applying the intervention
accurate questions. By future
in the future.
Facilitators and barriers that emerged from the focus
group analyses. applying this intervention the nurses
are able to accomplish a
Themes
Facilitators situation of openness and sincerity,
which is the starting point
3.2.2. Barriers
of nursing care. The nurse
Dialogue appreciated working in a structured
A good and structured method to start a dialogue with Although the nurses were
the
way by asking questions, formulate very positive, they
goals and care plans based experienced also some
patient which enables the nurses to provide
individualized, barriers ( Table 2). Even
on shared decision making. though it was feasible to
Themes accommodate the fre-quency
patient centered care which addresses the perceptions Barriers
and of three consultations for
each individual patient within
Time and financial Within the six week in the context of
needs of the patient. It is the essence of the nursing context of normal practice it will be
profession.
participating in the cluster
difficult to
Start of the randomized trial, the nurses
The Brief-Illness Perception Questionnaire provides a explained that they
focused models questioned if they could
intervention accommodate the frequency of three
arrange this in the context of
way to ask questions to the patient. The questions consultations for each
goes beyond their daily practice because of
their busy workload and other
patient within six weeks. Applying work obligations. However,
the topics the nurses normally discuss about the COPD-GRIP
complaints and
under the condition that the
general practitioner authorize
intervention means that the first them and that payment
giving the advice of quit smoking. Some patients consultation-hour took 30 to models will be devel-oped,
interpret the
they highly recommend to
60 min which is longer than within enroll the COPD-GRIP-
questions in diverse or wrong ways. The questions regular care. Financial intervention in daily practice.
elicited the
Finally, the nurses
models need to be developed and the experienced some barriers in
patient to answer the questions and to think about the general practitioner applying the COPD-GRIP
topics. intervention in patients with a
The booklet
The booklet is clear and structured and a good should authorize the nurses to apply lower health literacy, es-
handhold in the intervention. pecially in filling in the B-
Specific patients IPQ questionnaire and
Applying the COPD-GRIP drawing up an individ-
applying the intervention because it guides the nurse intervention is difficult in patients
through ualized care plan. These
barriers were solved by
with a with a lower health literacy taking more time to fill in the
the intervention, step by step with clear examples of and in patients with lower questionnaire together and by
the
taking more time to discuss
social economic status. possi-ble actions within the
questions which they can ask the patient. Themes care plan. The nurses
Added value Recommendations
A useful, structured and individualized tool to get to
experienced also barriers in
know the patients with a lower social
economic status. They
observe more and more that
patient and to learn what is important for a patient. It Digital system
gives the The nurses would like to integrate low financial resources of the
the intervention in the digital patients complicate their
COPD management.
tools to discuss many topics in more detail, enhancing Financial costs can be, for
patient general practitioner system in order
to use it on a computer or a example an obstacle for a
healthy lifestyle. The nurses
knowledge, enhancing understanding and awareness. mentioned that a growing
mobile device.
number of patients could not afford to visit specific patient groups. the results the current
fitness clubs to enlarge their physi-cal Furthermore the nurses evaluationX
activities and a growing number of patients described that if the COPD-
could not pay their medication because of GRIP intervention will be
the own contribution within their health implemented in the future,
assurance.X extra attention should be paid Table 3
to the development of
financial and au-thorization
3.2.3. Recommendations models. Summary of the facilitators and
barriers of the COPD-GRIP
intervention.
The nurses gave some recommendations
for the future. Firstly, in order to make the Facilitators
The key strength of the
COPD-GRIP intervention more feasible, Barriers
present study is that we used
the nurses recommended to integrate the
a mixed-method procedure to
COPD-GRIP intervention into the digital
obtain an in-depth
general practitioner system so they can use
exploration and Sufficient knowledge to provide
it on the computer or mobile device.
understanding of the nurses' Lack of time and financial models to
Secondly, to apply the intervention in the
experiences with the intervention within the trial.
future the nurses would like to receive accommodate three consultations
intervention in order to
more training and education.
identify fa-cilitators and
barriers in applying the within six weeks within normal
3.3. Summary COPD-GRIP intervention in
clinical nursing practice. practice.
Took less time than expected.
A summary of the facilitators and barriers In patients with a different cultural
as described in the questionnaires and in Another strength is that this
the focus groups is provided in Table 3.X study was nested within a background.
cluster-randomized trial.
Structured tool to provide
Although comprehensive In patients with lower social
4. Discussion process evaluations along- economic
side randomized trials are individualized patient-centered care.
status.
In this study we evaluated the nurses' increasingly carried out ( Good method to address perceptions
experiences with the new COPD-GRIP Bleijenberg et al., 2013;
In patients with lower health
intervention. To our knowledge this is the literacy.
Fairbrother et al., 2013; and needs of the patient. Essence of
first nursing in-tervention that translates the
Langer et al., 2014) it
evidence concerning illness perceptions
remains a relatively
into a practical guide that nurses can use in nursing profession.
uncommon procedure in
clinical care. The study re-vealed that the
trials of complex
COPD-GRIP intervention is experienced as Booklet is clear handhold.
a worthwhile tool that provides structured, interventions in general (
individualized and patient centered care to Craig & Petticrew, 2013;
Intervention is a tool to discuss
guide the patient with the COPD. Several Moore et al., 2015) and many
facilitating factors were identified. Firstly, specific in studies concerning
according to almost all nurses in this study, illness perceptions
the COPD-GRIP intervention is a good interventions in other chronic topics in more detail, enhancing
method to address perceptions and the disease patients ( Broadbent,
needs of COPD patients. Secondly, patient knowledge, enhancing
Ellis, Thomas, Gamble, &
applying the COPD-GRIP inter-vention
took less time than they expected. Thirdly, Petrie, 2009; Davies et al., understanding and awareness.
the COPD-GRIP in-tervention as a valuable 2008; Jansen, Heijmans,
tool to discuss many topics in detail and to Rijken, & Kaptein, 2011;
improve the care for COPD patients. Petrie et al., 2002). To
Barriers were encountered, espe-cially in
prevent bias in interpreting
90 S.W.M. Weldam et al. / Applied Nursing Research 33 (2016) 85–92
The finding that nurses in our Nutbeam, 2008). These
study experienced barriers in patients could experience
study should be conducted before the
patients with another cultural problems which dominate the
results of the trial are known. The findings
background than the Dutch health problems. Therefore, it
of this study will provide nurses, other
background, in pa-tients with remains veryX
health care profes-sionals and policy
a lower social economic
makers with vital information about how
status and in patients with a
the new COPD-GRIP intervention can be
low health literacy is not important to explore their
implemented and used in daily practice.
surprising. Chronic illness situation and identify their
case management in these problems in daily life. Hence,
Although the questionnaires and focus patient groups require high we need to adjust the COPD-
groups provided a great deal of rich data, level competencies ( Hibbard GRIP intervention by de-
the study has some limitations. One scribing simple supportive
limitation is that we have not measured & Gilburt; Smolowitz et al., interventions as to ask “What
treatment fidelity. Although all nurses 2015). Although the basic concerns do you have in your
received the same educational session by assumption of the COPD- daily life” or “Are there issues
the same researcher we could not pro-vide GRIP intervention is to you like to discuss with me?”,
information on how the nurses applied the explore the perceptions and or to use a question prompt
intervention during their consultations. needs of the patient, the list. A recent study shows that
Secondly, we did not collect data intervention does not low literate patients
concerning the ex-periences of the nurses describes in detail how to use themselves feel less confident
with the educational sessions. Evaluating the in-tervention in these and perceive more obstacles
these sessions might have provided us with specific patients. Even though in the communication in
recommendations to develop the the Common Sense model medical consultations as well
educational sessions in the future. and self-regulation theory ( ( Henselmans, Heijmans,
Leventhal et al., 2003) takes Rademakers, & van Dulmen,
Some identified barriers of applying the the social context into 2014). Therefore, it is
COPD-GRIP intervention in this study are account, this approach to important to pay extra
in line with barriers described in other health and illness is predomi- attention that patients feel
studies. The iden-tified barrier of financial nantly a Western world confident within the
and authorization models in the future, is approach ( Baumann, consultations ( Henselmans
also described as a barrier in a study where
et al., 2014; Smolowitz et al.,
primary care nurses applied a telephone- 2003). The cultural setting
delivered health monitoring in COPD defines explicit features of 2015).X
patients ( Walters et al., 2013) and in a illness perceptions (
study focussing on nursing interventions Baumann, 2003). To ex-plore 5. Implications for nursing
for frail elderly people in primary care ( these features the COPD- practice
GRIP intervention might be
Bleijenberg et al., 2013). Other studies
helpful. However, to apply
show that not only financial models are To enhance implementation
this intervention in patients
important to implement chron-ic care of the COPD-GRIP
with different cultural
management in primary care, but intervention, we have defined
backgrounds and to detect
organizational priorities could hinder a three recommendations based
cultural variations,
successful collaborative patient-practitioner on the results of this study.
adjustments should be made
relationship ( Kennedy et al., 2014; Young by adding a cultural First, the nurse should be
well educated and trained in
et al., 2015).X assessment as described by
applying the COPD-GRIP
Clark ( Clark, 1996) and intervention. Second, models
Bauman ( Baumann, 2003). for financial compensation
Other barriers in the current study are in
and authorization need to be
line with the barriers re-ported in two This means that in order to
developed. Third,
studies in which a new intervention in un-derstand cultural
adjustments in applying this
primary care was evaluated ( Bleijenberg et variations in illness intervention in specific
perceptions, it should be
al., 2013; van Eijken et al., 2008). Al- patient groups need to be
empha-sized that the context,
though these studies evaluated nursing made.
the underlying premises
interventions that focuses on frail elderly
(such as causes of a disease)
patients, we can compare the barriers at the
of behavior and the meaning 6. Conclusion
level of the nurses, because the studies used
of specific behaviors should
the same questionnaire based on a
be ex-plored in more detail ( The current study meets the
structural list of barriers and facilitators (
Baumann, 2003; Clark, emerging need for research
Peters et al., 2003). Bleijenberg and
1996).X regarding development and
colleagues ( Bleijenberg et al., 2013) evaluation of nursing
indicate that in line with our re-sults, interventions in COPD care
barriers were encountered in patients with In patients with a lower that addresses patient unmet
multimorbidity, in pa-tients with different social economic status and a needs and takes illness
cultural backgrounds, in patients with a lower health literacy it is perceptions into account.
lower social economic status. In the study likewise important to Although adjustments in
by van Eijken ( van Eijken et al., 2008) as understand the context and applying the intervention in
needs of an individual patient specific patients groups
well as in the study by Bleijenberg ( by asking which problems should be made and financial
Bleijenberg et al., 2013) the same barriers patients encounter in daily and authorization models
concerning time and financial compensation life before starting to assess should be developed, the
were identified.X the illness perceptions ( outcomes in this study show
that a nursing in-tervention
Hibbard & Gilburt; which takes illness
perceptions into account is a valuable im- analysis, reviewing, and final following experts for their
provement in providing individualized editing of the manuscript. participation in the expert
COPD care. MZ con-tributed to the data group and their valuable
collection, data analysis and contribution to the
reviewing of the man-uscript. development of the COPD-
Funding
MS contributed to the study GRIP intervention: Carien
concept and design, Roos (respiratory nurse),
This study is funded by Partners in Care providing input on the data Larissa Verweij (respiratory
Solutions for COPD (PICAS-SO). analysis, reviewing, and final nurse), Caroline Veelers-de
PICASSO had no role in the design, editing of the manu-script. Bruin (respiratory nurse),
collection, analysis and interpre-tation of All authors read and Marjorie de Man (clinical
data; in the writing of the report; and in the approved the final nurse specialist), Ad Kaptein
decision to submit the article for manuscript. (profes-sor Health
publication. Psychology), Alfred Sachs
(general practitioner).
Author contributions
Conflicts of interests
We would like to thank all
the nurses within the COPD-
SW contributed to the study concept and
The authors report no GRIP trial who gave their
design, data collection, data analysis, and
conflicts of interest. time to participate in this
writing of the manuscript and takes full
study. We would like to thank
responsibility for the integrity of the data
Simone Sluis (study nurse)
and the accuracy of the data analysis. JWL Acknowledgements
for here valuable help in the
contributed to the study concept and
organiza-tion of the focus
design, providing input on the data
We would like to thank the groups.
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