Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views
Aims: To investigate community health patients' impressions of care planning and their relationship with allied health professionals in a rural town in Western Australia. Methods: Focus groups were conducted followed by a survey to identify patients' opinions on care planning and their rel...
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| author | Hunt, E. Moore, J. Sherriff, Jillian |
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| description | Aims: To investigate community health patients' impressions of care planning and their relationship with allied health professionals in a rural town in Western Australia. Methods: Focus groups were conducted followed by a survey to identify patients' opinions on care planning and their relationships with health professionals. Results: Focus groups and a survey identified that patients generally had positive attitudes towards their experiences with community-based allied health professionals. Participants identified some of the attributes that they valued in allied health professionals. Many participants (39%) believed that they had a partnership with the health professional and also valued having a shared decision-making power with the health professional (46%); however, 17% identified that they would prefer the health professional to assume more of the decision-making power. Conclusions: More work is needed to create a health culture in which patients want to manage their own health and can develop a relationship with their health professional that allows them to achieve this. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-470682017-09-13T16:08:10Z Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views Hunt, E. Moore, J. Sherriff, Jillian Aims: To investigate community health patients' impressions of care planning and their relationship with allied health professionals in a rural town in Western Australia. Methods: Focus groups were conducted followed by a survey to identify patients' opinions on care planning and their relationships with health professionals. Results: Focus groups and a survey identified that patients generally had positive attitudes towards their experiences with community-based allied health professionals. Participants identified some of the attributes that they valued in allied health professionals. Many participants (39%) believed that they had a partnership with the health professional and also valued having a shared decision-making power with the health professional (46%); however, 17% identified that they would prefer the health professional to assume more of the decision-making power. Conclusions: More work is needed to create a health culture in which patients want to manage their own health and can develop a relationship with their health professional that allows them to achieve this. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47068 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2011.01571.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia restricted |
| spellingShingle | Hunt, E. Moore, J. Sherriff, Jillian Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title | Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title_full | Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title_fullStr | Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title_short | Community health-care planning in Western Australian Country Health Service-South West: An evaluation of patient views |
| title_sort | community health-care planning in western australian country health service-south west: an evaluation of patient views |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47068 |