Healthcare professionals feel empowered by implementing a hospital-based multifaceted intervention: a qualitative...

Area of Science:

• Healthcare interventions
• Patient mobility
• Professional development

Background:

• Hospitalized patients often lack physical activity, leading to poor health and delayed recovery.
• Multifaceted interventions aim to increase patient physical activity during hospital stays.
• The value of such interventions for healthcare professionals is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate healthcare professionals' perceptions of value regarding the implementation of the Ban Bedcentricity intervention.
• To understand how perceived value influences the adoption and long-term implementation of hospital-based physical activity interventions.

Main Methods:

• Qualitative study using Ban Bedcentricity as a case study.
• Semi-structured interviews with 15 physicians, physiotherapists, and nurses (assistants).
• Inductive thematic analysis to identify key themes and develop a conceptual model.

Main Results:

• Intervention empowered professionals' beliefs and awareness regarding patient physical activity.
• Enhanced professionals' skills and redefined their roles in promoting activity.
• Facilitated teamwork and routinized physical activity promotion in daily care.
• Challenges included workload and maintaining new practices without long-term support.

Conclusions:

• Hospital-based interventions can empower healthcare professionals, enhancing beliefs, awareness, skills, roles, teamwork, and work routinization.
• These perceived values are critical, yet often overlooked, facilitators for successful long-term implementation.
• Understanding professional value is key to the sustained adoption of patient mobility interventions.