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Musculoskeletal impairments after critical illness: a protocol for a qualitative study of the experiences of patients, family and health care professionals
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Background: Survivors of critical care are at risk of long-term disability from musculoskeletal (MSK) impairments. These can have a biopsychosocial impact on the patient and their families with a reduction in health-related quality of life, increased health care utilization, caregiving roles and associated psychological distress.
Aims: To understand the experiences of patients living with MSK impairments following critical illness, and family and health care professionals supporting them, to inform the development of a future intervention to improve MSK health following critical illness.
Study Design: A four-site qualitative case study approach will be taken, with each of the four hospital sites and associated community services representing a case site. We will conduct semi-structured interviews with 10–15 patients/family members and 10–15 health care professionals about their experiences of MSK impairment following critical illness. Interviews will be audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis within a descriptive phenomenological approach. Alongside interview data, analysis of publicly available policy documentation, patient-facing materials and information from service leads at the four sites will be conducted. Discourse analysis will be used for this case study documentation.
Results: This protocol describes a qualitative study exploring the experiences of patients living with MSK impairments following critical illness, and the family and health care professionals supporting them.
Relevance to Clinical Practice: Data analysis will illuminate their experiences and enable data richness to contribute to the qualitative body of evidence of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. These findings will inform the development of a complex intervention for MSK rehabilitation after critical illness.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/nicc.12972
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- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Journal:
- Nursing in Critical Care More from this journal
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 622-627
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2023-08-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-08-11
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1478-5153
- ISSN:
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1362-1017
- Pmid:
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37642162
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1517736
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pubs:1517736
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2023-09-19
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- King et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © 2023 The Authors. Nursing in Critical Care published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Association of Critical Care Nurses. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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