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Prioritizing Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) to use in the clinical care of youth living with mental health concerns. A Nominal Group Technique Study Passed

Wednesday May 15, 2024 11:15 - 11:21 G2

Moderator: Andreas Fors
Presenter: Maria J. Santana

Track: Tools and Assessments

Background: In the past few decades, particularly in the mental health setting, there has been growing interest in using Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) to assess the efficacy of the treatments in healthcare systems. Despite recent initiatives for global harmonization, there remains a lack of consensus on which PROMs are best practice and appropriate. Engagement of the service users, such as patients and family members/caregivers, is vital at this stage to ensure the selected PROMs are feasible, relevant, and acceptable to them. This study aimed to prioritize PROMs by youth and family/caregiver based on feasibility, relevance, and overall importance to be used in the clinical care of youth living with anxiety and/ or depression. Methods: Ten validated and widely used PROMs were presented to the patient and family/caregivers. Nominal group techniques were employed to prioritize the PROMs based on feasibility, relevance, and overall importance. Results: For patients and families/caregivers, the PROMs, Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCAD 25), and The Young Person’s Core (YP-CORE) were the highest priorities. Both felt that RCAD 25 was comprehensive, short, easy, and quick to complete, whereas regarding YP-CORE, patients and family/caregivers thought it was also short and relevant. Due to some specific concerns, the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire and Child Health Questionnaire were the lowest prioritized by patients and family/caregivers. Conclusion: It is of utmost importance that patient's and family/caregivers' voices or opinions are considered while selecting and implementing PROMs in mental health settings. Our study provides practical recommendations around measures best suited to achieve this. Keywords: Patient-reported Outcome measures, Feasibility, Relevance Prioritizing, Nominal group technique, Youths, Patients/caregivers. 

Language

English

Seminar type

Pre-recorded + On-site

Lecture type

Orals

Conference

GCPCC

Authors

Kalpana Thapa Bajgain, Justino Mendoza, Fariba Aghajafari, Karen Tang, Jeniffer Zwicker, Maria Santana

Lecturers

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Andreas Fors Moderator

Professor
University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC)

Professor.
Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC), Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.


Andreas is a professor in nursing, specialising in research on person-centred care across various conditions and contexts. He has approximately 50 publications in scientific journals. Currently, he is the primary investigator of a prospective, longitudinal cohort study combined with a qualitative focus group study. The aim of this project, PCC@Work, is to follow, describe, and assess the impact of applying person-centred care in hospital, primary, and municipal care on work-related health and job satisfaction among health and social care professionals. Additionally, the project explores professionals' experiences regarding their work-related health and job satisfaction while applying person-centred care.

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Maria J. Santana Presenter

Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

Dr. Maria J. Santana is a health services researcher, patient and family-centred care scientist, Professor in the departments of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada.

Dr. Santana has received training in clinical pharmacy (BPharm, MPharm, London School of Pharmacy, UK, Universidad La Laguna, Spain), public health and clinical epidemiology (PhD, University of Alberta, Canada).

She is the provincial director, Patient Engagement for the Alberta Strategy for Patient-oriented Research (https://absporu.ca/patient-engagement-2/ ). She is the principal investigator for the Person-centred Care Research Team, https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/research/person-centred-care and the academic director of the Patient and Community Engagement in Research, PaCER, https://www.ucalgary.ca/patient-community-engagement-research .

In 2023, she received the President Award by the International Society for Quality of Life Research. Recently, she has collaborated in three major international initiatives: World Health Organization - Patient Engagement: Technical Series on Safer Primary Care; Pan-American Health Organization – World Hypertension League Hypertension Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to aid Hypertension Control Programs; and the International Consortium for Health Outcome Measurement Adult Diabetes. She is a scientific advisor for the Gothenburg Person-centred Centre, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.