Implementing and evaluating care and support planning: a qualitative study of health professionals' experiences in public polyclinics in Singapore.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Two polyclinics in Singapore modified systems and trained health professionals to provide person-centred Care and Support Planning (CSP) for people with diabetes within a clinical trial. We aimed to investigate health professionals' perspectives on CSP to inform future developments.

Methods

Qualitative research including 23 semi-structured interviews with 13 health professionals and 3 co-ordinators. Interpretive analysis, including considerations of how different understandings, enactments, experiences and evaluative judgements of CSP clustered across health professionals, and potential causal links between them.

Results

Both polyclinic teams introduced CSP and sustained it through COVID-19 disruptions. The first examples health professionals gave of CSP 'g

SUBMITTER: Entwistle VA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10585850 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature