Objective:To explore primary care practitioners’personal and professional beliefs about traditional and complementary approaches(TCA)to health and the influence of professional socialization in the UK.Methods:As part...Objective:To explore primary care practitioners’personal and professional beliefs about traditional and complementary approaches(TCA)to health and the influence of professional socialization in the UK.Methods:As part of a larger study on child TCA use in a multi ethnic community,semi-structured,one on one,face-to-face interviewswith 30 primary care practitioners(GPs,nurses and health visitors)explored experience,knowledge and attitudes regarding TCA.Framework analysiswas used.This paper explores the key emergent issues of personal and professional beliefs and professional socialization resulting from the qualitative data obtained during the interviews.Results:Personal factors(ethnicity and personal use)influence attitudes,but professional factors appear to dominate,including biomedical theory,evidence basedmedicine,safety and treatment choice.Curbing of personal views and experience may be due to caution and conformity from increasing regulatory power.Inter-and intra-professional group differences also emerged,likely due to variation in training,status and professional role.Conclusions:Practitioners need to understand patients’diverse health beliefs and practices and discuss TCAwith families,despite regulatory and organizational constraints,to fulfil their professional duty to patients,particularly regarding safety.Further research is needed to verify the professional socialization process and the influence of specific regulation on training.展开更多
Background:Musculoskeletal disorders(MSD) comprise a wide range of conditions,associated with an enormous pain and impaired mobility,and are affecting people's lives and work.Management of musculoskeletal disorder...Background:Musculoskeletal disorders(MSD) comprise a wide range of conditions,associated with an enormous pain and impaired mobility,and are affecting people's lives and work.Management of musculoskeletal disorders typically involves a multidisciplinary team approach.Positive findings have been found in previous studies evaluating the effectiveness of complementary therapies,though little attention has been paid to evaluating of the effectiveness of integrated packages of care combining conventional and complementary approaches for musculoskeletal conditions in a National Health Service(NHS) setting.Objective:To determine the feasibility of all aspects of a pragmatic observational study designed:(1) to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of integrated treatments for MSDs in an integrated NHS hospital in the UK;(2) to determine the acceptability of the study design and research process to patients;(3) to explore patients' expectation and experience of receiving integrated treatments.Methods:This is an observational feasibility study,with 1-year recruitment and 1-year follow-up,conducted in Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine,University College London Hospital Trust,UK.All eligible patients with MSDs newly referred to the hospital were included in the study.Interventions are integrated packages of care(conventional and complementary) as currently provided in the hospital.SF-36 Health Survey,short form Brief Pain Inventory,Visual Analogue Scale,and modified Client Service Receipt Inventory will be assessed at 4/5 time points.Semi-structured interview/focus group will be carried out before treatment,and 1 year after commence of treatment.Discussion:We intend to conduct a pragmatic observational study of integrated medical treatment of MSDs at a public sector hospital.It will inform the design of a future trial including recruitment,retention,suitability of the outcome measures and patients experiences.展开更多
文摘Objective:To explore primary care practitioners’personal and professional beliefs about traditional and complementary approaches(TCA)to health and the influence of professional socialization in the UK.Methods:As part of a larger study on child TCA use in a multi ethnic community,semi-structured,one on one,face-to-face interviewswith 30 primary care practitioners(GPs,nurses and health visitors)explored experience,knowledge and attitudes regarding TCA.Framework analysiswas used.This paper explores the key emergent issues of personal and professional beliefs and professional socialization resulting from the qualitative data obtained during the interviews.Results:Personal factors(ethnicity and personal use)influence attitudes,but professional factors appear to dominate,including biomedical theory,evidence basedmedicine,safety and treatment choice.Curbing of personal views and experience may be due to caution and conformity from increasing regulatory power.Inter-and intra-professional group differences also emerged,likely due to variation in training,status and professional role.Conclusions:Practitioners need to understand patients’diverse health beliefs and practices and discuss TCAwith families,despite regulatory and organizational constraints,to fulfil their professional duty to patients,particularly regarding safety.Further research is needed to verify the professional socialization process and the influence of specific regulation on training.
文摘Background:Musculoskeletal disorders(MSD) comprise a wide range of conditions,associated with an enormous pain and impaired mobility,and are affecting people's lives and work.Management of musculoskeletal disorders typically involves a multidisciplinary team approach.Positive findings have been found in previous studies evaluating the effectiveness of complementary therapies,though little attention has been paid to evaluating of the effectiveness of integrated packages of care combining conventional and complementary approaches for musculoskeletal conditions in a National Health Service(NHS) setting.Objective:To determine the feasibility of all aspects of a pragmatic observational study designed:(1) to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of integrated treatments for MSDs in an integrated NHS hospital in the UK;(2) to determine the acceptability of the study design and research process to patients;(3) to explore patients' expectation and experience of receiving integrated treatments.Methods:This is an observational feasibility study,with 1-year recruitment and 1-year follow-up,conducted in Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine,University College London Hospital Trust,UK.All eligible patients with MSDs newly referred to the hospital were included in the study.Interventions are integrated packages of care(conventional and complementary) as currently provided in the hospital.SF-36 Health Survey,short form Brief Pain Inventory,Visual Analogue Scale,and modified Client Service Receipt Inventory will be assessed at 4/5 time points.Semi-structured interview/focus group will be carried out before treatment,and 1 year after commence of treatment.Discussion:We intend to conduct a pragmatic observational study of integrated medical treatment of MSDs at a public sector hospital.It will inform the design of a future trial including recruitment,retention,suitability of the outcome measures and patients experiences.
