'Our care through our eyes’ study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
‘Our care through our eyes’: A service-user co-produced education programme for acute hospital nurses to improve the care of children and young people with self-harm injuries
IRAS ID
179450
Contact name
Joseph Manning
Contact email
Research summary
Children and young people (CYP) spend significant time being cared for by nursing teams without specialist training. There is therefore a need for an educational intervention that addresses deficits in nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and confidence in caring for hospitalised CYPs with self-harm injuries. Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) are on-line multimedia learning tools that can be used to educate health professionals.
The primary objectives of this study are to:
1. Identify priority areas for the nurse educational intervention;
2. Co-produce this with CYP and registered children's nurses;
3. Evaluate the impact of the (e-learning materials (RLOs)) on nursing staff knowledge of self-harm, attitudes and level of confidence to manage care.
The project design:Stage 1. Priority-setting workshop. We will recruit nineteen nurses from Nottingham. A mix of nurse grades levels, clinical experience and years qualified will be recruited. A delphi technique will be used to establish consensus of nurse information needs.
Stage 2. The development of a co-produced educational intervention (RLOs) based on priorities identified in stage 1. Two separate RLO workshops will be held; the first attended by 20-25 CYP the second by 19 children nurses.
Stage 3. The third stage involves implementation and evaluation of the educational intervention with registered nurses and CYPs at NCH. There will be two workstreams:
Workstream 1: Follow piloting, all registered children’s nurses will be invited to take part on the study involving completion of an initial baseline questionnaire to assess their levels of knowledge, attitudes and confidence in caring for children who self-harm. Once complete, they will be provided with the educational intervention (accessible through electronic platforms) and have a month to work through these. A follow-up questionnaire will then be sent.
Workstream 2: Involving one-to-one interviews with a sample of nurses about their experience of using the RLOs and its impact on their practice.
REC name
East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/EM/0236
Date of REC Opinion
16 Jun 2015
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion