Facilitators and barriers of implementing end-of-life care volunteering in a hospital in five European countries: the iLIVE study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

End-of-life (EoL) care volunteers in hospitals are a novel approach to support patients and their close ones. The iLIVE Volunteer Study supported hospital volunteer coordinators from five European countries to design and implement an EoL care volunteer service on general wards in their hospitals. This study aimed to identify and explore barriers and facilitators to the implementation of EoL care volunteer services in the five hospitals.

Methods

Volunteer coordinators (VCs) from the Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Slovenia (SI), Spain (ES) and United Kingdom (UK) participated in a focus group interview and subsequent in-depth one-to-one interviews. A theory-inspired framework based on the five domains of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR)

SUBMITTER: Yildiz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10985898 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature