Clarke, D; Gombert-Waldron, K; Honey, S; Cloud, G; Harris, R; Macdonald, A; McKevitt, C; Robert, G; Jones, F
(2021)
Co-designing organisational improvements and interventions to increase inpatient activity in four stroke units in England: a mixed-methods process evaluation using normalisation process theory.
BMJ Open, 11 (1).
e042723.
ISSN 2044-6055
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042723
SGUL Authors: Jones, Fiona
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To explore facilitators and barriers to using experience-based co-design (EBCD) and accelerated EBCD (AEBCD) in the development and implementation of interventions to increase activity opportunities for inpatient stroke survivors. DESIGN: Mixed-methods process evaluation underpinned by normalisation process theory (NPT). SETTING: Four post-acute rehabilitation stroke units in England. PARTICIPANTS: Stroke survivors, family members, stroke unit staff, hospital managers, support staff and volunteers. Data informing our NPT analysis comprised: ethnographic observations, n=366 hours; semistructured interviews with 76 staff, 53 stroke survivors and 27 family members pre-EBCD/AEBCD implementation or post-EBCD/AEBCD implementation; and observation of 43 co-design meetings involving 23 stroke survivors, 21 family carers and 54 staff. RESULTS: Former patients and families valued participation in EBCD/AEBCD perceiving they were equal partners in co-design. Staff engaged with EBCD/AEBCD, reporting it as a valuable improvement approach leading to increased activity opportunities. The structured EBCD/AEBCD approach was influential in enabling coherence and cognitive participation and legitimated staff involvement in the change process. Researcher facilitation of EBCD/AEBCD supported cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring; these were important in implementing and sustaining co-design activities. Observations and interviews post-EBCD/AEBCD cycles confirmed creation and use of new social spaces and increased activity opportunities in all units. EBCD/AEBCD facilitated engagement with wider hospital resources and local communities, further enhancing activity opportunities. However, outside of structured group activity, many individual staff-patient interactions remained task focused. CONCLUSIONS: EBCD/AEBCD facilitated the development and implementation of environmental changes and revisions to work routines which supported increased activity opportunities in stroke units providing post-acute and rehabilitation care. Former stroke patients and carers contributed to improvements. NPT's generative mechanisms were instrumental in analysis and interpretation of facilitators and barriers at the individual, group and organisational level, and can help inform future implementations of similar approaches.
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Keywords: |
qualitative research, quality in healthcare, rehabilitation medicine, stroke, England, Health Personnel, Humans, Inpatients, Qualitative Research, Stroke, Humans, Qualitative Research, Health Personnel, Inpatients, England, Stroke, stroke, rehabilitation medicine, quality in healthcare, qualitative research, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences |
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: |
Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH) |
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BMJ Open |
ISSN: |
2044-6055 |
Language: |
eng |
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26 January 2021 | Published | 3 January 2021 | Accepted |
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Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 |
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PubMed ID: |
33500286 |
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WOS:000614460700003 |
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https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/115252 |
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https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042723 |
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