The development of a theory-based intervention to promote appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development and description of interventions to change professional practice are often limited by the lack of an explicit theoretical and empirical basis. We set out to develop an intervention to promote appropriate disclosure of a diagnosis of dementia based on theoretical and empirical work.

Methods

We identified three key disclosure behaviours: finding out what the patient already knows or suspects about their diagnosis; using the actual words 'dementia' or 'Alzheimer's disease' when talking to the patient; and exploring what the diagnosis means to the patient. We conducted a questionnaire survey of older peoples' mental health teams (MHTs) based upon theoretical constructs from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and use

SUBMITTER: Foy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2211296 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature