Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a combined intervention to increase the delivery of patient-centred multiple fundamental care activities on adult wards in acute hospitals, specifically those related to pressure ulcer prevention (hydration, nutrition, mobility, continence and skin care)

niversity of Southampton0 个研究点目标入组 732 人开始时间: 2019年3月21日最近更新: 2022年3月1日

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2022 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13435 (added 15/02/2022) 2019 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2019.100001 (added 15/02/2022)

•Staff (interviews, surveys):
•1. All nurses and care assistants (CAs) (Health care assistants, assistant practitioner, nursing auxiliaries) working on participating wards during any data collection period will be invited to be interviewed and eligible to complete the nursing questionnaires.
•2. Age: 18+
•3. Gender: Both
•Patients (interviews, surveys):
•1. Age: 18+
•2. Gender: Both
•3. Only people who speak English and who have the cognitive and communicative capacity to participate in a research interview (as assessed by the researcher and/or ward staff) will be invited to take part
•Care interactions (patients and staff):
•1. Age: 18+
•2. Gender: both
•3. Patients who are able to consent OR if lacking mental capacity, advice will be taken from an appropriate consultee in deciding whether or not to include someone

•1. Nursing students, bank and agency staff will not be eligible to be interviewed nor to complete the nursing questionnaires
•1. Reverse-barrier nursed, receiving palliative care or are critically ill (research team will be advised by the nurse-in-charge when coming onto the ward)
•2. Lacking capacity to decide about taking part in the research and/or unable to communicate their choices about taking part in the research AND a consultee (as defined by the Mental Capacity Act) cannot be consulted (NB patients who lack capacity will be included in care interaction observations if a consultee advises this is appropriate and the patient does not show signs of dissent)
•3. Indicate either verbally or non verbally that they do not wish to take part
•4. Unconscious or where there are clinical concerns that may preclude them from being approached (we will check with the nurse-in-charge on arrival on the ward whom we should not approach)
•5. Receiving continual clinical care that would impair their capacity to make a decision about taking part
•6. Communication difficulties, including e.g. language differences, auditory impairments, impair the recruiter's ability to communicate about the research or the patient's ability to communicate their choice about taking part
•7. Unable to complete a questionnaire in English with interviewer help
•8. Qualitative interviews - lacking the cognitive and communicative capacity to be interviewed

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niversity of Southampton