Type of data | Themes | |||
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Use of template | Establishing patient agenda | A biopsychosocial perspective | Agreeing health plans | |
Patient interviews and focus groups | A couple of patients commented that the 3D template distracted the clinician’s attention and/or slowed them down | Patients glad to be ‘allowed’ to talk about all their problems in 3D reviews and to have an all-round review | One patient impressed by questions put by GP who he had not previously seen. Some patients’ needs for depression treatment recognised during review | Some patients appreciated these but many reported not receiving one, or it not having been agreed collaboratively |
Clinician interviews | Some GPs disliked being constrained by a template. Nurses had criticisms about the content and some found it unwieldy. Unfamiliarity with it hindered them. A few nurses and GPs welcomed the template | Novel to ask explicitly about patient agenda and focus on that. Some clinicians said it would change future practice. Some issues patients raised were not considered appropriate because intractable or outside the remit of the review | Nurses not always comfortable with administering PHQ-9 questionnaire | Some nurses felt their disease management role had been reduced. Some GPs liked the written health plan as a record of what had been agreed but many were uncomfortable with it; felt it was artificial and trivial; they preferred a verbal summary in accordance with their usual practice |
PHQ-9 = nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire.