Effectiveness of a Virtual Intervention for Professionals to Improve Their Attitudes Towards Patient Empowerment.

Conditions

Chronic Disease

Keywords

Patient empowerment, Patient involvement, Patient participation, Healthcare professional attitudes, Chronic diseases

Brief summary

The eMPODERA study aims to assess the effectiveness of a Community of Practice (CdP) virtual in improving attitudes of primary care professionals on the empowerment of patients with chronic diseases.

Detailed description

Main Objective: to assess the effectiveness of a Community of Practice (CdP) virtual in improving attitudes of health professionals in primary care on the empowerment of patients with chronic diseases. Methodology: Design: cluster randomised controlled. Scope: primary care centers (PCC) belonging to the Regions of Catalonia, Madrid and Canary Islands. Population: primary care health professionals (family doctors and nurses). Sample size: 270 healthcare professionals and 1382 patients. Randomization: Randomization unit: PCC; unit of analysis: primary care health professionals. 9 pairs of PCC by region will be randomly selected and randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. Randomization will be performed after the selection of professionals and patients. Intervention: the intervention group will be offered participation for 12 months in a virtual CdP based on a web 2.0 platform. The control group will receive usual training. Measurements: the primary outcome will be measured by Patient-Provider Orientation Scale (PPOS) questionnaire at baseline and 12 months. Secondary outcomes: sociodemographic of professionals; sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients; Patient Activation Measure (PAM) questionnaire for patient activation; outcomes regarding use of the CdP. Analysis: A linear mixed-effects regression to estimate the effect of participating in the CdP will be estimated. Additionally, an analysis of how the CdP is functioning through techniques of social network analysis and control charts will be performed.

Koatz D, Torres-Castaño A, Salrach-Arnau C, Perestelo-Pérez L, Ramos-García V, González-González AI, Pacheco-Huergo V, Toledo-Chávarri A, González-Pacheco H, Orrego C.

2024-02-071 citations

10.1186/s12909-024-05061-6

Acceptability and feasibility of a virtual community of practice to primary care professionals regarding patient empowerment: a qualitative pilot study.

Bermejo-Caja CJ, Koatz D, Orrego C, Perestelo-Pérez L, González-González AI, Ballester M, Pacheco-Huergo V, Del Rey-Granado Y, Muñoz-Balsa M, Ramírez-Puerta AB, Canellas-Criado Y, Pérez-Rivas FJ, Toledo-Chávarri A, Martínez-Marcos M, e-MPODERA group.

2019-06-2019 citations

10.1186/s12913-019-4185-z

Effectiveness of a virtual intervention for primary healthcare professionals aimed at improving attitudes towards the empowerment of patients with chronic diseases: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial (e-MPODERA project).

González-González AI, Orrego C, Perestelo-Perez L, Bermejo-Caja CJ, Bermejo-Caja CJ, Mora N, Koatz D, Ballester M, Del Pino T, Pérez-Ramos J, Toledo-Chavarri A, Robles N, Pérez-Rivas FJ, Ramírez-Puerta AB, Canellas-Criado Y, Del Rey-Granado Y, Muñoz-Balsa MJ, Becerril-Rojas B, Rodríguez-Morales D, Sánchez-Perruca L, Vázquez JR, Aguirre A.

2017-10-307 citations

10.1186/s13063-017-2232-9

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCommunity of Practice

The intervention group will be offered participation for 12 months in a virtual CdP based on a web 2.0 platform. The control group will receive usual training.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

21 Years to 70 Years

Healthy volunteers

No

Inclusion criteria

Clusters: * Primary Care Centres (PCC) with Electronic Record system with more than 1 year of implementation * PCC belongs to the Automonous Comunities of Canary Island, Catalonia and Madrid Healthcare professionals: * Acceptance to participate * stable contract with the Primary care centre * Physician or Nurses

Exclusion criteria

Clusters: \- Primary Care Centres where its directors do not accept to participate in the trial Healthcare professionals: * Students * Medical and Nursing residents

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change from Patient-Provider Orientation Scale (PPOS) at 12 months	At baseline and 12 months	PPOS is a questionnaire administrated to healthcare professionals

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change from Patient Activation Measure (PAM) at 12 months	Baseline and 12 months	PAM is validated questionnaire to measure patient activation (administrated to patients)

Contacts

Primary ContactCarola Orrego, PhD

corrego@fadq.org34 932076608

Outcome results

None listed