Comparison of enablement scores in primary care
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Do Advanced Nurse Practitioners and General Practitioners achieve equal enablement scores in primary care?
IRAS ID
243638
Contact name
Jules Downs
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Teesside University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
n/a, n/a
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 3 months, 22 days
Research summary
Traditionally primary care has been delivered by general practitioners (GPs), however, over the past two decades the structure within the NHS and primary care has changed. There has been a shortfall of doctors and in particular doctors training to be GPs. This has meant that experienced nurses have been encouraged to acquire, by education, more advanced skills and become advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs) There has been little research conducted by ANPs on the quality of the consultation they are delivering within primary care. ANPs and GPs are now consulting with patients who have the same complex needs, therefore it is important to be able to measure if patients are experiencing the same levels of enablement within consultations. Enablement is a concept which focuses on the individual and enhances their own skills to feel more confident about managing their health and illness. The research will be comparing enablement scores which are measured using the patient enablement instrument between GPs and ANPs in a primary care health centre. The study will also ask for demographic data to discover if age and gender have a bearing on enablement scores which may also highlight the different ways consultations need to be delivered to consider individual factors. The study will use anonymous questionnaires patients recruited through convenience sampling after consultations with either GPs or ANPs. There will be no patient identifiable data on the questionnaires. This data once collected will be analysed used an spss package to look for any differences between the two groups of clinicians and also to see if demographics are related to enablement scores within the health centre.
REC name
East of England - Cambridge East Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/EE/0127
Date of REC Opinion
8 Mar 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion