Investigating the facilitators and barriers to using the day room
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Investigating the facilitators and barriers to using the day room (ward room) on an Older Person's acute medical ward; Patient and Staff perspectives.
IRAS ID
260575
Contact name
Pip Logan
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
NA, NA
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 5 months, 15 days
Research summary
This research project aims to focus on older persons wards at a large teaching hospital. Within these busy wards there is a room called a ‘day room’. At present these rooms are under used and research shows that patients spend a lot of their time in bed, in the chair next to their bed and are bored. This encourages in-activity and can cause long-lasting effects of reduced ability once they are well enough to leave hospital.
This research wants to look at ‘day room’s' and see whether there are suggestions patients and staff can provide to encourage its use. The research also wants to ask patients and staff about the room to gain a greater understanding why it is not used.
This research will involve interviewing 6 older patients from the health care of the older person ward who feel well enough to have a 25 minute interview in the ward day room. The research will also include a group interview of up to 6 staff members who work on these wards. The interviews will ask about the day room.
Staff already working with patients will ask if they are interested in being involved with research. If they are then a researcher will meet the patient on the ward to provide some information and if they want to continue; then the next day a researcher will come to the ward and complete an interview lasting at most 25 minutes in the local day room. The staff group interview will last at the most 40 minutes within the University Medical School (which is attached to Queens Medical Centre and easy to find).
REC name
London - Stanmore Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/LO/1100
Date of REC Opinion
4 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion