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Promoting a sense of security in everyday life—A case study of patients and professionals moving towards co-production in an atrial fibrillation “learning café”
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare). Department of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, the Highland Hospital (Höglandssjukhuset), Eksjö, Region Jönköping County, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2760-4571
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7669-4702
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8952-8773
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2480-1641
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2019 (English)In: Health Expectations, ISSN 1369-6513, E-ISSN 1369-7625, Vol. 22, no 6, p. 1240-1250Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Background

An improvement initiative sought to improve care for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients; many felt insecure about how to cope with AF.

Objective

To reveal AF patients' and professionals' experiences of pilot-testing a Learning Café group education programme, aimed at increasing the patients' sense of security in everyday life.

Design

Using an organizational case study design, we combined quantitative data (patients' sense of security) and qualitative data (project documentation; focus group interviews with five patients and five professionals) analysed using inductive qualitative content analysis.

Setting

AF patients and a multiprofessional team at a cardiac care unit in a Swedish district hospital.

Improvement activities

Two registered nurses invited AF patients and partners to four 2.5-hour Learning Café sessions. In the first session, they solicited participants' questions about life with AF. A physician, a registered nurse and a physiotherapist were invited to address these questions in the remaining sessions.

Results

AF patients reported gaining a greater sense of security in everyday life and anticipating a future shift from emergency care to planned care. Professionals reported enhanced professional development, learning more about person-centredness and gaining greater control of their own work situation. The organization gained knowledge about patient and family involvement.

Conclusions

The Learning Café pilot test?exemplifying movement towards co-production through patient-professional collaboration?generated positive outcomes for patients (sense of security), professionals (work satisfaction; learning) and the organization (better care) in line with contemporary models for quality improvement and with Self-Determination Theory. This approach merits further testing and evaluation in other contexts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2019. Vol. 22, no 6, p. 1240-1250
Keywords [en]
atrial fibrillation, coping behaviours, co-production, health-care quality improvement, patient education, Self-Determination Theory
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Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-45651DOI: 10.1111/hex.12955ISI: 000482497000001PubMedID: 31433546Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070880105Local ID: GOA HHJ 2019OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-45651DiVA, id: diva2:1344776
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Futurum - Academy for Health and Care, Jönköping County Council, SwedenForte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and WelfareAvailable from: 2019-08-22 Created: 2019-08-22 Last updated: 2023-04-27Bibliographically approved
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1. Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Co-producing healthcare quality improvement: the prerequisites for, the value of and the lessons from co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting
2023 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Background: The promotion of the best possible health and care is challenging to healthcare organizations worldwide. Healthcare organizations’ capability to improve the quality of care is therefore crucial to the sustainability of the welfare state. Research implies that co-production of healthcare, involving persons with disease, their families and healthcare professionals, has the potential to promote healthcare quality improvement and the best possible health and care. However, the evidence base for co-production in social and healthcare contexts is rather weak. Thus, the overall aim of this thesis was to explore the prerequisites for and the value of co-production and to provide lessons for future co-produced healthcare quality improvement initiatives in cardiac care.

Methods: All studies were conducted in a cardiac care setting in the southern part of Sweden between the years 2016 and 2023. The research had a qualitative design with a practice-oriented interactive research approach, underpinned by healthcare improvement science and pragmatism. Persons with atrial fibrillation or heart failure, their family members, and healthcare professionals participated in the research. Two models for co-production were explored – the Learning Café (LC) and Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD). Data collection included patients’ ratings regarding their sense of security in everyday life, focus group interviews, project documentation, individual interviews, field notes from observations, and meeting minutes from stakeholders’ individual and joint EBCD feedback events. Data analysis entailed inductive or deductive qualitative content analysis and reflexive thematic analysis. Self-determination theory, the COM-B model and the MUSIQ framework were applied during the research process to promote an in-depth understanding of the concept of co-production.

Findings: This research exemplifies a learning journey toward co-production in a Swedish cardiac care setting. Barriers to and facilitators of co-production were identified on different levels – the individual, the relational and the systemic levels. Individual barriers to co-production included poor health and limited health literacy among persons with heart disease. Relational barriers included professionals not inviting patients and their family members to be involved in healthcare co-4 production. Barriers on the systemic level included time and resource constraints and varying understanding of how co-production might be applied in practice. Both self-centered motivations, such as wanting to learn more about a specific disease, and community-centered motivations, such a wanting to improve healthcare services, were identified to be facilitators to co-production. The LC and the EBCD process created value for its participants and the organization, including improved disease knowledge; relatedness; strengthened coping strategies and improved self-efficacy; awareness about the patient and family member perspective; and knowledge about what needs to change in heart failure care.

Conclusions: This thesis proposes how healthcare co-production might be practiced, particularly in cardiac care contexts which have seen only limited implementation of such initiatives. Self-centered motivations to co-produce were common among persons with heart disease and their family members, whereas community-centered motivations dominated among professionals. Future co-production initiatives should draw on these motivations. Furthermore, future co-production initiative should seek to overcome barriers to co-production by letting stakeholders participate on their own terms, by promoting a cultural change toward shared power between patients, family members and professionals and by encouraging healthcare leaders and mangers to support healthcare quality improvement. Furthermore, this thesis proposes that co-production brings value to its stakeholders in terms of improved coping strategies persons with heart disease and family members and enhanced work satisfaction among professionals. Future research is warranted to understand how co-production might be implemented and play out in various healthcare contexts and with other groups of persons living with chronic disease.

Abstract [sv]

Bakgrund: Att kunna erbjuda bästa möjliga vård är en utmaning för hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisationer världen över. Organisationernas förmåga att förbättra vårdens kvalitet är därför avgörande för framtiden. Forskning tyder på att samskapande av hälso- och sjukvård (engelskans co-production of healthcare), som involverar personer med sjukdom, deras familjer och vårdpersonal, främjar bästa möjliga hälsa och vård. Det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling var att utforska förutsättningar för och värdet av samskapande och att identifiera främjande lärdomar för framtida samskapade kvalitetsförbätt-ringsinitiativ inom sjukvården.

Metod: Samtliga studier genomfördes inom hjärtsjukvården i södra Sverige mellan åren 2016-2023. Studierna hade en kvalitativ design med en interaktiv forskningsansats. Personer med förmaksflimmer eller hjärtsvikt, deras familjer och sjukvårdspersonal deltog i forskningsstudierna. Två modeller för samskapande utforskades – lärcafé och erfarenhetsbaserad verksamhetsutveckling (engelskans Experience-Based Co-Design, EBCD). Datainsamlingen inkluderade patientskattningar avseende trygghetskänsla, fokusgruppsintervjuer, projektdokumentation, individuella intervjuer, fältanteckningar från observationer och mötesprotokoll från individuella och gemensamma EBCD-sammankomster. Data analyserades med induktiv eller deduktiv kvalitativ innehållsanalys och reflexiv tematisk analys.

Resultat: Hindrande och underlättande faktorer för samskapande identifierades på olika nivåer – den individuella, den relationella och den systemiska nivån. Individuella hinder för samskapande bestod av nedsatt hälsa och begränsad hälsoliteracitet hos personer med hjärtsjukdom. Relationella hinder bestod av att inte bli inbjuden att samskapa. Hinder på systemnivån bestod av brist på tid och resurser samt varierande förståelse för hur samskapande kan tillämpas i praktiken. Deltagarnas motivation för att deltaga i projekten främjade samskapande och varierade från att deltaga för sin egen skull till att deltaga för att förbättra vården för andra med liknande utmaningar till6 följd av kronisk sjukdom. Lärcaféet och EBCD-processen skapade ett värde för deltagarna och organisationen, framför allt förbättrad sjukdomskunskap, stöd från andra med liknande erfarenheter, stärkta strategier för att hantera sjukdom och självförmåga, ökad medvetenhet om patient- och närståendeperspektiv samt kunskap om vad som behöver förändras inom hjärtsviktsvården.

Slutsatser: Avhandlingen visar hur samskapande kan tillämpas inom hjärtsjukvård. Personer med hjärtsjukdom och deras familjer deltog i projekten främst för sin egen skull medan medarbetare huvudsakligen deltog för att förbättra vården för andra som lever med kronisk sjukdom. Framtida samskapandeprojekt behöver utgå från dessa motiverande faktorer. Framtida projekt bör dessutom sträva efter att övervinna de faktorer som hindrar samskapande genom att låta deltagare deltaga på sina egna villkor, genom att främja en kulturförändring inom hälso- och sjukvården mot delad makt mellan patienter, närstående och medarbetare och genom att uppmuntra chefer till att stötta vården förändringsarbete. Vidare ger denna avhandling en ökad förståelse för det värde som samskapandet genererar i form av förbättrad sjukdomsbemästring bland personer med hjärtsjukdom och deras familjer samt förbättrad arbetstillfredsställelse bland medar-betare. Framtida forskning behövs för att förstå hur samskapande av hälso- och sjukvård kan överföras till andra vårdmiljöer för och med andra grupper av personer som lever med kroniska sjukdom.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Jönköping: Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, 2023. p. 145
Series
Hälsohögskolans avhandlingsserie, ISSN 1654-3602 ; 127
Keywords
Co-production of healthcare; cardiac care; atrial fibrillation; heart failure; healthcare quality improvement; healhtcare improvement science; pragmatism; Learning Café, Experience-Based Co-Design; COM-B; Self-Determination Theory; MUSIQ; case study; content analysis; reflexive thematic analysis
National Category
Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
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urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-60270 (URN)978-91-88669-29-2 (ISBN)978-91-88669-30-8 (ISBN)
Public defence
2023-06-02, Forum Humanum, School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2023-04-27 Created: 2023-04-27 Last updated: 2023-06-13Bibliographically approved

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