How do Patients, Relatives and Healthcare Professionals View Person-centered Rehabilitation.

Summary

This research project aims to integrate insights from marketing and rehabilitation sciences to investigate Person Centered in rehabilitation.

The research objectives are

1. to better understand what Person Centered Rehabilitation means in rehabilitation,
2. to understand how Person Centered Rehabilitation can be enhanced
3. to develop an instrument that can be used as a quality indicator to evaluate and monitor Person Centered Rehabilitation in rehabilitation
4. to understand the impact of Person Centered Rehabilitation on key outcomes in rehabilitation.

To recruit respondents, we will work together with different rehabilitation centers and hospitals with a rehabilitation department.

The interviews will be based on the Trajectory Touchpoint Technique. The interviews will be transcribed and uploaded in NVivo 14. To code the data, we will use the Gioia method which offers a systematic approach to bring qualitative rigor in qualitative research and contains of four steps.

1. We will code the data based on first-order terms.
2. we will systematically examine these first-order terms to organize them into second-order theory-centric themes.
3. we will investigate whether it is possible to categorize the second-order themes into aggregate dimensions which serve to summarize the key components of the emerging theory
4. when we have the full set of first-order terms, second-order themes and aggregate dimensions, we will have all ingredients for building a data structure. The data structure provides a graphical presentation of how we progressed from raw data to themes and dimensions.

Conditions

• Patient Centered Care

Interventions

OTHER

Conventional care with semi-structured interviews and focus groups

In semi-structured individual interviews, employees of healthcare organisations are asked about their experiences, opinions and knowledge on person-centredness. This makes it possible to gather in-depth insights. This approach will mainly be used when surveying e.g. board members, managers, representatives of patient organisations. In addition, focus groups (6 to 8 people) will be organised. This is especially valuable when surveying doctors, paramedics and nurses. Focus groups make it possible to survey several respondents at the same time, encourage spontaneous conversations and share experiences. The interaction between participants can also ensure that additional perspectives and insights are covered.

OTHER

In-depth interviews with patients and relatives

The objective is to thoroughly understand what PEC means in rehabilitation. Although PEC can be understood as 'being responsive to the unique wishes and needs of the individual person', there still is a lack of consensus about its exact conceptualization in the rehabilitation context (Yun and Choi 2019). Prior work often only considers PEC in terms of shared decision making and goal setting, while the holistic perspective on the patient as a whole person is largely neglected (Yun and Choi 2019). This qualitative phase thus focuses on understanding PEC, its dimensions and the unique wishes and needs of patients in rehabilitation services. In addition, we gather insights regarding the potential enhancement of PEC in rehabilitation. The interviews are based on the Trajectory Touchpoint Technique (TTT; Sudbury-Riley et al. 2020a; 2020b) which allows us to uncover the unique experiences of respondents (i.e., patients, relatives, informal caregivers). The TTT is especially suited fo

OTHER

Semi-structured interviews and focus groups

In semi-structured individual interviews, employees of healthcare organisations are asked about their experiences, opinions and knowledge on person-centredness. This makes it possible to gather in-depth insights. This approach will mainly be used when surveying e.g. board members, managers, representatives of patient organisations. In addition, focus groups (6 to 8 people) will be organised. This is especially valuable when surveying doctors, paramedics and nurses. Focus groups make it possible to survey several respondents at the same time, encourage spontaneous conversations and share experiences. The interaction between participants can also ensure that additional perspectives and insights are covered.

OTHER

Conventional care with additional focusgroups

In semi-structured individual interviews, students of healthcare organisations are asked about their experiences, opinions and knowledge on person-centredness. The focus groups will be supported by the Lego® Serious Play (LSP) will be used to collect in-depth insights from students. This design allows flexibility in questioning, while still following a consistent structure to explore common themes across focus groups. The use of Lego encourages participants to think in new ways.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hasselt University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Ilse Lamers, PhD · UHasselt

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2025-09-05

Primary Completion

2026-12-31

Completion

2026-12-31