InS:PIRE evaluation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Intensive Care Syndrome: Promoting Independence and Return to Employment (InS:PIRE) - Evaluation of scaling up
IRAS ID
217174
Contact name
Marion Campbell
Contact email
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
17/WM/0108 , REC
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 7 months, 31 days
Research summary
Our project will evaluate the scaling up of The Health Foundation-funded ‘Intensive Care Syndrome: Promoting Independence and Return to Employment’ (InS:PIRE) programme from one site (Glasgow Royal Infirmary) to others across Scotland (the Crosshouse (NHS Ayr and Arran), Golden Jubilee (NHS Golden Jubilee), Victoria (NHS Fife) and Wishaw and Monklands (NHS Lanarkshire) hospitals).
InS:PIRE is a five-week rehabilitation programme focusing on patient education, peer support and the facilitation of self-management. Each week, patients receive one hour of physiotherapy as a group, as well as individualised sessions with health professionals, to aid an accelerated recovery and return to employment. This unique programme places specific emphasis on recovery for caregivers and has integrated health and social care.
Evaluation is an essential component of this programme. Evaluation is the best form of evidence to demonstrate effectiveness at scale convincingly, and generate a detailed understanding of how, and why, effectiveness was (or was not) achieved and the learning therein.
We have conducted an evaluability assessment (see supporting documentation) and will now undertake formative evaluation throughout the project (including interim reports), followed by a summative evaluation (written up into a final report). The research element of our evaluation will involve a primary qualitative inquiry to evaluate the scaling up process and progress, including ethnographic work, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with stakeholders at all sites.
We will write six monthly reports for the funder, an interim report one year into the formative evaluation and a final report, the summative evaluation, towards the project end (due in spring 2019, following project end 31 October 2018). The final evaluation will tell us not only whether the InS:PIRE programme is scaleable, but also why and how. It will capture insights from the original and developing programme run by the Glasgow Royal Infirmary team, as well as from the programmes established, and personnel involved, at the scaling up sites across the other Scottish hospitals and health boards. This evaluation will produce learning for the future, both specific to the scaling up of the InS:PIRE programme and generalisable for the scaling up of complex health interventions.
REC name
West Midlands - Edgbaston Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/WM/0108
Date of REC Opinion
17 Mar 2017
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion