Advance care planning with people with dementia: a process evaluation of an educational intervention for general practit
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Advance care planning with people with dementia: a process evaluation of an educational intervention for general practitioners Bram Tilburgs1* , Raymond Koopmans2,3,4, Henk Schers2, Carolien Smits5, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen1, Marieke Perry2,3,6† and Yvonne Engels7†
Abstract Background: General practitioners (GPs) are advised to offer advance care planning (ACP) to people with dementia (PWD). In a randomized controlled trial, an educational intervention for GPs aimed at initiating and optimizing ACP proved to be effective. During the intervention most GPs were accompanied by their practice nurse (PN). To provide insights into the intervention’s successful components and what could be improved, we conducted a process evaluation and explored implementation, mechanisms of impact and contextual factors. Methods: We used the Medical Research Council guidance for process evaluations. Implementation was explored identifying reach and acceptability. We performed descriptive analyses of participants’ characteristics; selection, inclusion and intervention attendance; a GP post-intervention survey on initiating ACP; a post intervention focus group with trainers of the intervention. Mechanisms of impact were explored identifying adoption and appropriateness. We used: participants’ intervention ratings; a GP post-intervention survey on conducting ACP; ACP documentation in PWD’s medical files; postintervention interviews with PWD/FC dyads. All data was used to identify contextual factors. Results: The intervention was implemented by a small percentage of the total Dutch GP population invited, who mostly included motivated PWD/FC dyads with relatively little burden, and PWD with limited cognitive decline. The mechanisms of impact for GPs were: interactively learning to initiate ACP with training actors with a heterogeneous group of GPs and PNs. For PWD/FCs dyads, discussing non-medical preferences was most essential regarding their SDM experience and QoL. Some dyads however found ACP stressful and not feasible. Younger female GPs more often initiated ACP. Male PWD and those with mild dementia more often had had ACP. These characteristics and the safe and intimate training setting, were important contextual facilitators. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] † Marieke Perry and Yvonne Engels contributed equally to this work. 1 Department of IQ Healthcare, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated other
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