Goal-setting in care planning for people with multimorbidity v1.0
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Goal-setting in care planning for people with multimorbidity: Feasibility study and intervention refinement
IRAS ID
202626
Contact name
Nicholas Steel
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Norfolk & Suffolk Primary & Community Care Research Office, hosted by South Norfolk CCG
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 9 months, 0 days
Research summary
A care plan is an agreement between a patient and doctor that helps them both to look after the patient’s health from day to day. A good care plan is owned by the patient and includes goals that are important to the patient and that they want to work towards, such as getting out of the house more, or taking fewer medicines. Over the past 3 years, nearly all general practices have offered care planning to patients at high risk of an unexpected hospital stay. Usual care planning may involve very little or no talking about patients’ goals, even though previous research has found that goal-setting can improve health.
We plan to compare two groups of patients, those who have usual care planning, and those who have care planning with goal-setting. We will use an existing simple approach to setting goals and seeing how well goals are met, called Goal Attainment Scaling. We will use a short version that we think will work well in general practice, which has been used with patients but not yet tested in primary care. Before we can find out if goal-setting improves health in a full scale trial, we need to collect information in this research study.
The information we will collect includes whether patients and general practitioners (GPs) like using goal-setting, whether GPs need training, whether we can collect the information we need about patients’ health, and the likely effect of goal-setting compared to usual care planning. We will run a small version of the planned future trial, called a ‘feasibility’ study, with 3 general practices in the ‘usual care planning’ and another 3 in the ‘care planning plus goal-setting’ arm of the study, with about 60 patients.REC name
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/EM/0411
Date of REC Opinion
18 Oct 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion