Healthcare professionals feel empowered by implementing a hospital-based multifaceted intervention: a qualitative study using inductive thematic analysis.

Background: Most patients are insufficiently physically active during their hospital stay, and this is associated with poor health and delayed recovery. Hospital-based multifaceted interventions aim to encourage patients to engage in physical activity. Ban Bedcentricity is one such intervention. Its...

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Published in:BMC Health Services Research Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11
Main Authors: Klooster, E., Koenders, N., Vermeulen-Holsen, J., Vos, L., van der Wees, P. J., Hoogeboom, T. J.
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Published: BioMed Central 7/12/2022
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        atl: Healthcare professionals feel empowered by implementing a hospital-based multifaceted intervention: a qualitative study using inductive thematic analysis.
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          Klooster, E.
          Koenders, N.
          Vermeulen-Holsen, J.
          Vos, L.
          van der Wees, P. J.
          Hoogeboom, T. J.
        affil: Department of Rehabilitation, Deventer Hospital, Deventer, the Netherlands
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          Attitude of Health Personnel
          Empowerment
          Hospital-Based Case Control
          Physical Activity
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Recovery
          Funding Source
          Implementation Science
          Qualitative Studies
          Semi-Structured Interview
          Physicians
          Physical Therapists
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          Thematic Analysis
          Models, Theoretical
          Length of Stay
          Treatment Duration
          Inpatients
          Professional Role
          Teamwork
          Workload
          Health Promotion
          Cognition
          Physical Therapy
          Hospitalization
          Behavioral Changes
          Health Beliefs
          Skill Acquisition
          Professional Development
          Collaboration
          Personal Values
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      ab: Background: Most patients are insufficiently physically active during their hospital stay, and this is associated with poor health and delayed recovery. Hospital-based multifaceted interventions aim to encourage patients to engage in physical activity. Ban Bedcentricity is one such intervention. Its value - and that of others similar to it - for healthcare professionals has not been studied yet. Whether an intervention looks and feels right, and whether it does the job well, is important for healthcare professionals and thus its use. Understanding value for healthcare professionals seems crucial for the long-term adoption and implementation of interventions. Therefore, we studied healthcare professionals' perceptions of value in terms of the implementation of a multifaceted intervention that aimed at improving physically active behaviour in patients during their hospital stay.Methods: Using Ban Bedcentricity as a case study to focus on healthcare professionals' perceptions about multifaceted interventions, we conducted a qualitative study between November 2019 and September 2020. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with purposefully selected physicians, physiotherapists, and nurses (assistants) until theoretical data saturation was reached. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify key themes and develop a conceptual model.Results: We interviewed 15 healthcare professionals and formulated six key themes from these interviews. The participants said that Ban Bedcentricity empowered them in their beliefs about the importance of physical activity for hospitalized patients (theme 1). They also indicated that it made them more aware of the value of physical activity (theme 2) and skilled to promote physical activity as part of their professional role (theme 3). Similarly, they noted that it enabled them to shift from providing hands-on support to verbal coaching (theme 4). Other aspects that the participants valued were the increased possibilities for teamwork (theme 5) and the routinized physical activity promotion in usual care (theme 6). The challenges discussed by the participants were prioritizing activities that promoted physical activity, especially because of a high workload, and avoiding relapses of new routinized work practices related to physical activity promotion if insufficient long-term support and training were provided.Conclusions: Our conceptual model shows that the implementation of a hospital-based multifaceted intervention by healthcare professionals empowers their beliefs, and improves their awareness, skills, professional roles, teamwork, and work routinization. These values are typically overlooked, despite potentially being important facilitators for long-term implementation.
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