DHA 722 Research Approaches Discussion
DHA 722 Research Approaches Discussion
DHA 722 WEEK 2 Critique Research Approaches to Healthcare Relationships
Review JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association which helps physicians and health professionals keep up-to-date on matters important to their patients and practices. Content covers virtually every specialty and aspect of medicine and JAMA’s articles range from influential original contributions to a variety of clinical and scientific features.
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Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis and evaluation of a research article on healthcare relationships published in the JAMA within the past five years.
Include the following in your analysis and evaluation:
Describe the problem statement in your own words
Elaborate on the rationale for the research design and methodology employed in the research article
Discuss how the conclusions might lead to further research
To advocate for patients to be more actively involved with the healthcare services they receive, particularly patients living with chronic illness, the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Montreal and its affiliated hospitals developed the Patients as Partners concept where the patient is considered a full-fledged partner of the health care delivery team and the patient’s experiential knowledge is recognized. This study aims to show how patients view their engagement with healthcare professionals regarding their direct care. Using theoretical sampling, 16 semi-structured interviews were conducted with patients with chronic illness who were familiar with the concept of Patients as Partners. Data analysis followed a constructivist grounded theory approach. Patients describe themselves as proactively engaging in three types of practice, regardless of health professionals’ openness to their role as partners. The first is a process of continuous learning that allows them to acquire experiential knowledge about their health, as well as scientific information and technical know-how. The second involves their assessment of the healthcare they receive, in terms of its quality and how it aligns with their personal preferences. It includes their assessment of the quality of their relationship with the health professional and of the latter’s scientific knowledge and technical know-how. The third type, adaptation practices, builds on patients’ learning and assessments to compensate for and adapt to what has been perceived as optimal or non-optimal health or healthcare circumstances. Patients appear to play a more active and less docile role in their own direct care than suggested so far in the literature, regardless of the degree of reciprocity of the partnership or the degree to which the health professional seeks to encourage patient engagement.
