scholarly journals Perceptions on Patient Control over Medical Record Sharing from Behavioral Health Professionals: Focus Group (Preprint)

10.2196/21208 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ivanova ◽  
Tianyu Tang ◽  
Nassim Idouraine ◽  
Anita Murcko ◽  
Adela Grando ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Medical Record ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Patient Control

Behavioral Health Professionals’ Perceptions on Outcomes of Patient-Controlled Granular Information Sharing Study: Focus Groups and Survey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ivanova ◽  
Tianyu Tang ◽  
Nassim Idouraine ◽  
Anite Murcko ◽  
Adela Grando ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Health Record ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Patient Study ◽  
Actual Patient

BACKGROUND Granular information sharing studies rarely use actual patient electronic health record (EHR) information. In a previous study, behavioral health patients categorized their own EHR data into sensitive categories (e.g. mental health) and chose which care team members (e.g. pharmacists) should have access to those records. In this study, behavioral health professionals are provided access to the outcomes of a previous patient study to better understand the perspectives of health professionals on patient-controlled granular information sharing. OBJECTIVE Assess behavioral health professionals’: (1) perspectives on understanding and opinions about granular information sharing; (2) accuracy in assessing redacted medical information; (3) reactions to patient rationale for health data categorization, assignment of sensitivity, and sharing choices; and (4) recommendations on how to improve the process of granular health information sharing. METHODS Four two-hour focus groups and a pre- and post-survey were conducted at two integrated health facilities. During the focus groups, outcomes from a previous study on patients’ medical record sharing choices were shared. Thematic analysis and descriptive statistical analyses were conducted. RESULTS Twenty-eight professionals were initially unaware of or provided incorrect definitions of granular information sharing (56.0%). After having access to outcomes from a previous patient study, professionals increased their mixed perspectives (21.4% to 37.1%) on granular information sharing. A majority (81.3%) identified that key medical data had been redacted from the study case. Many (66.1%) stated they did not understand patient rationale for categorization or medical sharing preferences. Finally, participants recommended that a variety of educational approaches be incorporated to inform patients about granular information and health record sharing processes. CONCLUSIONS This study provides detailed insights from behavioral health professionals on patient-controlled granular information sharing. Health professionals accurately identified information gaps resulting from patient-directed data redaction, improved in their overall concept comprehension, underscored the fine line between patient safety and patient rights, and expressed a commitment to help patients appreciate the risks and benefits associated with granular information sharing. Outcomes will inform the development, deployment and evaluation of an electronic consent tool for granular health data sharing.

scholarly journals If You Don’t Eat Meat… You’ll Die. A Mixed-Method Survey of Health-Professionals’ Beliefs

Nutrients ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3028
Author(s):  
Patrick McHugh ◽  
Morgen Smith ◽  
Nicholas Wright ◽  
Sarah Bush ◽  
Sue Pullon
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Common Chronic Disease ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Good Nutrition ◽  
Spreadsheet Software

Despite an ever-increasing burden of non-communicable diseases and overwhelming evidence that good nutrition improves outcomes it is difficult to know whether this evidence is reaching the general population. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether health professionals in Tairāwhiti have sufficient nutrition education for their roles in health education and promotion and whether nutrition beliefs held by health professionals were consistent with current literature. A particular interest was to enlist views on the harms, benefits, and possible barriers to following plant-based diets. A mixed-methods study involving health professionals completing a questionnaire and a subsequent focus group to collect data was used. Survey data were analysed using spreadsheet software, and thematic content analysis of focus group data was undertaken. Participants provided nutrition advice 2.4 times per day. Almost half of practitioners considered their nutrition knowledge to be inadequate, and most made poor use of references for provision of information. Plant-based diets were generally viewed as beneficial to health, improve quality of life, be filling, but were perceived as not as easy to follow. This study is in keeping with previous research that the health workforce would benefit from more formalised nutrition education and competencies to address common chronic disease.

Student Perceptions of OT Course in Animal-Assisted Therapy for Health Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 7512505205p1-7512505205p1
Author(s):  
Petrina Talbot ◽  
Pamela Linden
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Animal Assisted Therapy ◽  
Scope Of Practice ◽  
Multimodal Learning ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
First Time ◽  
Primary Author

Abstract Date Presented Accepted for AOTA INSPIRE 2021 but unable to be presented due to online event limitations. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore graduate OT student perspectives on an animal-assisted therapy (AAT) course elective offered for the first time. A semistructured focus group captured student perceptions of course content, pedagogy, experiential activities, and assignments. Given that AAT is a growing area of interest among OT practitioners and falls within the OT scope of practice, AAT coursework should be integrated into OT curricula through multimodal learning methods. Primary Author and Speaker: Petrina Talbot, AIM Services, Inc., Port Jefferson, NY, USA Additional Authors and Speakers: Pamela Linden

scholarly journals Different forms of informal coercion in psychiatry – a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veikko Pelto-Piri ◽  
Lars Kjellin ◽  
Ulrika Hylén ◽  
Emanuele Valenti ◽  
Stefan Priebe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Informal Coercion ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract Objectives The objective of the study was to investigate how mental health professionals describe and reflect upon different forms of informal coercion. Results In a deductive qualitative content analysis of focus group interviews, several examples of persuasion, interpersonal leverage, inducements, and threats were found. Persuasion was sometimes described as being more like a negotiation. Some participants worried about that the use of interpersonal leverage and inducements risked to pass into blackmail in some situations. In a following inductive analysis, three more categories of informal coercion was found: cheating, using a disciplinary style and referring to rules and routines. Participants also described situations of coercion from other stakeholders: relatives and other authorities than psychiatry. The results indicate that informal coercion includes forms that are not obviously arranged in a hierarchy, and that its use is complex with a variety of pathways between different forms before treatment is accepted by the patient or compulsion is imposed.

Health Professionals' Communication Competences as a Light on the Patient Pathway

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Cristina Vaz de Almeida ◽  
Célia Belim
Keyword(s):  
Health Literacy ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Patient Pathway ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Communication Competencies ◽  
Three Factor

This article proposes a three-factor model of communication competencies inspired in literature review and evaluated and completed by Portuguese health specialists with expertise on health literacy, who were organized into four focus groups (n=25). The study includes a response to the lack of consensus in the literature as to what specific and operative competencies the health professional should perform in clinical encounters with the patients. All the participants in the focus group agreed and reinforced that an aggregated and interdependent model, which is composed of assertiveness, clarity of language, and positivity (ACP model), can be an effective health communication model.

scholarly journals Health Professionals’ Readiness and Its Associated Factors to Implement Electronic Medical Record System in Four Selected Primary Hospitals in Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shekur Mohammed Awol ◽  
Abreham Yeneneh Birhanu ◽  
Zeleke Abebaw Mekonnen ◽  
Kassahun Dessie Gashu ◽  
Atsede Mazengia Shiferaw ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Electronic Medical Record ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Electronic Medical Record System ◽  
Record System ◽  
Medical Record System

scholarly journals Developing a Preliminary Definition and Domains of Flare in Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis (OA): Consensus Building of the Flare-in-OA OMERACT Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1188-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Guillemin ◽  
Camille Ricatte ◽  
Annica Barcenilla-Wong ◽  
Amandine Schoumacker ◽  
Marita Cross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Hip Osteoarthritis ◽  
Consensus Building ◽  
Delphi Consensus ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Definition Of

Flare in knee and hip osteoarthritis (OA) is more than just an exacerbation of pain. Unstructured, semistructured, and focus group interviews followed by Delphi surveys with patients and health professionals (HP) generated candidate domains of an OA flare. Content analysis of interviews with 29 patients and 16 HP extracted 180 statements, which were grouped into 9 clusters. Delphi consensus with 50 patients (Australia, Canada, and France) and 116 HP (17 countries on 4 continents) identified 5 flare domains: pain, swelling, stiffness, psychological aspects, and effect of symptoms. Elements for a preliminary definition of an OA flare are proposed. Registered at clinicaltrials.govNCT02892058.

scholarly journals The Current Psychiatric Mental Health Registered Nurse Workforce

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany J. Phoenix
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Registered Nursing ◽  
Data Limitations ◽  
Behavioral Health Workforce

OBJECTIVE: To define and describe the current psychiatric mental health registered nursing (PMHN) workforce providing care for persons with mental health and substance use conditions, evaluate sources of data relevant to this workforce, identify additional data needs, and discuss areas for action and further investigation. METHOD: This article uses currently available data, much of it unpublished, to describe the current PMHN workforce. RESULTS: The available data indicate that PMHNs represent the second largest group of behavioral health professionals in the United States. As is true of the overall nursing workforce, PMHNs are aging, overwhelming female, and largely Caucasian, although the PMHN workforce is becoming more diverse as younger nurses enter the field. PMHNs are largely employed in the mental health specialty sector, and specifically in institutional settings. Similar to other behavioral health professionals, a significant shortage of PMHNs exists in rural areas. Because of data limitations and difficulty accessing the best available data on the PMHN workforce, it is often overlooked or mischaracterized in published research and government reports on the behavioral health workforce. CONCLUSIONS: Although PMHNs are one of the largest groups in the behavioral health workforce, they are largely invisible in the psychiatric literature. Psychiatric nursing must correct misperceptions about the significance of the PMHN workforce and increase awareness of its importance among government agencies, large health care organizations, and within the broader nursing profession.

Perspectives of Dutch health professionals regarding auditory processing disorders; a focus group study

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 942-950 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Neijenhuis ◽  
Ellen de Wit ◽  
Margreet Luinge
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Auditory Processing Disorders ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Dutch Health
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