Using shared goal setting to improve access and equity: a mixed methods study of the Good Goals intervention in children's occupational therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access and equity in children's therapy services may be improved by directing clinicians' use of resources toward specific goals that are important to patients. A practice-change intervention (titled 'Good Goals') was designed to achieve this. This study investigated uptake, adoption, and possible effects of that intervention in children's occupational therapy services.

Methods

Mixed methods case studies (n = 3 services, including 46 therapists and 558 children) were conducted. The intervention was delivered over 25 weeks through face-to-face training, team workbooks, and 'tools for change'. Data were collected before, during, and after the intervention on a range of factors using interviews, a focus group, case note analysis, routine data, document analysis, and

SUBMITTER: Kolehmainen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3444894 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature