Potential VCA Candidates, Caregivers, and Providers Motivations, Expectations, and Shared Decision-Making in VCA
Abstract
Our most significant finding in the last year is related to the barriers to engaging caregivers in the qualitative research process. Our recruiting has led to a number of VCA recipients and upper amputee eligible patients willing to be interviewed, but the subjects note that they do not feel that their caregiver has played enough of a role in their day-to-day activities to warrant their interest in being interviewed. We have acquired a number of provider and patient subject interviews and will continue to analyze these data as we enter year two. We have begun to consider the longitudinal nature of the care subjects receive at the time of injury and the logistical challenges of observing their decision-making process. This has led to discussions about introducing journaling for subjects in Aim 2 of the study to better understand their decision-making process and will be submitting a modification to reflect this and other ways of gathering longitudinal information that informs the values and expectations of the subjects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1086654
Entities
People
- Sheila Jowsey-gregoire