Patient's lived experience of delayed discharge
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Service user's lived experience of delayed discharge and its effects on their well-being on a rehabilitation ward.
IRAS ID
222623
Contact name
Candan Ertubey-Sterling
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Of Bedfordshire
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Oxford health NHSFT R& D ref number, PID 12962
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 0 days
Research summary
The purpose of the proposed research is to explore the lived experience of service user's whose discharge has been delayed on a mental health rehabilitation ward with an aim to help inform and improve the discharge processes. Several studies have investigated the factors that lead to delayed discharge from health professional point of view. A limited number of studies have sought to understand the effects, feelings and experiences of the delayed discharge on the health and well- being of patients.
The design of the study will be an exploratory design, and a qualitative phenomenological research framework will be used. The study will utilise Phenomenological reduction to bracket the Chief Investigator's perceived notions and fore-knowledge on delayed discharge.
Participants for the study who satisfy the inclusion criteria will be recruited from a rehabilitation ward of the research site. A formal voluntary invitation and a consent form for the research will be provided for the participants to complete before commencement. All personal details of participants will be anonymised in according to the Trusts policy on confidentiality. The Participants will undergo a thirty-minute interview session to obtain their feelings, thoughts, perceptions, perspectives and understandings of delayed discharge and how it impact on their wellbeing. The interview will be recorded on an Olympus recording device and transcribed onto the Trusts Computers using a transcribing software by the researcher. The transcribed data will be shared with individual participants for corrections and clarification of the interview data. The transcribed Data will then be coded and analysed with an Atlas software by the researcher. A Thematic analysis method will be utilised to draw out common themes from the interviews. This will be done within the Phenomenological framework. The final phase involves weaving together the analytic narrative of the coded data and contextualise the analysis about existing literature.REC name
West of Scotland REC 4
REC reference
17/WS/0144
Date of REC Opinion
17 Jul 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion