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Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Compassionate care continues to be a focus for national and international attention, but the existing evidence base lacks the experimental methodology necessary to guide the selection of effective interventions for practice. This study aimed to evaluate the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention in improving compassionate care.

Setting

Ward nursing teams (clusters) in two English National Health Service hospitals randomised to intervention (n=4) or control (n=2). Intervention wards comprised two medicines for older people (MOPs) wards and two medical/surgical wards. Control wards were both MOPs.

Participants

Data collected from 627 patients and 178 staff.

Exclusion criteria

reverse barrier nursed, critically ill, palliative or non-English speaking. All other patients and all nursing staff and Health Care Assistant HCAs were invited to participant, agency and bank staff were excluded.

Intervention

CLECC, a workplace intervention focused on developing sustainable leadership and work-team practices to support the delivery of compassionate care.

Control

No educational activity.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Primary-Quality of Interaction Schedule (QuIS) for observed staff-patient interactions. Secondary-patient-reported evaluations of emotional care in hospital (PEECH); nurse-reported empathy (Jefferson Scale of Empathy).

Results

Trial proceeded as per protocol, randomisation was acceptable. Some but not all blinding strategies were successful. QuIS observations achieved 93% recruitment rate with 25% of patient sample cognitively impaired. At follow-up there were more total positive (78% vs 74%) and less total negative (8% vs 11%) QuIS ratings for intervention wards versus control wards. Sixty-three per cent of intervention ward patients scored lowest (ie, more negative) scores on PEECH connection subscale, versus 79% of control. This was not a statistically significant difference. No statistically significant differences in nursing empathy were observed.

Conclusions

Use of experimental methods is feasible. The use of structured observation of staff-patient interaction quality is a promising outcome measure inclusive of hard to reach groups.

Trial registration number

ISRCTN16789770.

SUBMITTER: Gould LJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879452 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Gould Lisa Jane LJ Griffiths Peter P Barker Hannah Ruth HR Libberton Paula P Mesa-Eguiagaray Ines I Pickering Ruth M RM Shipway Lisa Jane LJ Bridges Jackie J

BMJ open 20180222 2

<h4>Objective</h4>Compassionate care continues to be a focus for national and international attention, but the existing evidence base lacks the experimental methodology necessary to guide the selection of effective interventions for practice. This study aimed to evaluate the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention in improving compassionate care.<h4>Setting</h4>Ward nursing teams (clusters) in two English National Health Service hospitals randomised to interven ...[more]

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Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objective

Setting

Participants

Exclusion criteria

Intervention

Control

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

Trial registration number

Publications

Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.

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