Catheter Passport Project - Version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Catheter Passport Service Development Research Study
IRAS ID
181976
Contact name
Melanie De Jaeger
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 29 days
Research summary
This mixed quantitative/qualitative project aims to explore how a patient-held Catheter Passport can affect the experiences of patients, hospital nurses and community nurses when patients leave hospital with a urinary catheter.
When patients leave hospital with a urinary catheter in situ they are likely to encounter challenges to their psychological and social functioning, for example having realistic expectations of adjustment, changes to body image, sexual expression, being in control and managing self-care. Many are not adequately supported to manage these challenges and our patient panel data shows that some patients leave hospital without knowing why they have a urinary catheter in situ.
In addition, community health professionals receive patients from hospital without a clear rationale or plan for the patient’s catheter, with 37% of catheterised patients receiving no mention of it on their Discharge Summary.
This project will explore how a patient-held catheter passport can affect the experiences of patients leaving hospital with a catheter and the nurses who discharge and receive them.
Participants in the research will be both patients and nurses. Patients with a urinary catheter, who are being discharged from the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) will be invited to consent and given a Catheter Passport on discharge. Some will then be asked to take part in a face to face structured interview at home, or in the hospital, with a nurse interviewer.
RUH nurses who have discharged at least one patient with a Catheter Passport and BaNES CCG nurses who have cared for at least one patient with a Catheter Passport will be asked to complete a questionnaire. Some will also be recruited to take part in a follow-up focus group.
It is hoped that this research will contribute to evidence about the best ways to support patients leaving hospital with a catheter.
REC name
South West - Cornwall & Plymouth Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/SW/0299
Date of REC Opinion
5 Nov 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion