Behavioural Change in Practice: Primary Care Providers' Journey Towards Goal-Oriented Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The demand for person-centred integrated care (PC-IC) requires health services focused on patients' individual needs. Strengthening primary care is crucial in promoting PC-IC. Goal-oriented care (GOC) prioritizes patient goals and fosters interprofessional team-based care, optimizing PC-IC. GOC requires healthcare providers to shift from problem- to goal-oriented practices. However, how providers change their daily practice to align care with what matters most to patients remains unclear.

Aim

This qualitative study explores how primary care providers (PCPs) experience behaviour change when implementing GOC in daily work after an interprofessional GOC-training.

Method

Six months post-training, focus groups with PCPs were organized. A theoretical thematic a

SUBMITTER: Haverals R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12716247 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature