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
Frederick Yeboah
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University Of Bedfordshire
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 0 days
Research summary
The aim of the proposed research is to explore the lived experience of service user's whose discharge has been delayed over the six months maximum stay limit in mental health hospitals. 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 prior to 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 affects their wellbeing. The interview will be recorded on and Olympus recording device and transcribed onto the Trusts Computers using a transcribing software. The transcribed data will be shared with individual participants for corrections and clarification of the interview data. The transcribed Data will be transferred to the CI's university computer via secured trust university email account. The data will then be coded and analysed with an Atlas software. 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
East Midlands - Leicester South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/EM/0211
Date of REC Opinion
6 Jun 2017
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion