1. Social processes in academic-community partnership in health care. A grounded theory study.
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Pusa, Susanna, Lind, Susanne, and Häggström, Marie
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EVALUATION of medical care , *RESEARCH , *PUBLIC relations , *ACADEMIC medical centers , *FOCUS groups , *EVALUATION of human services programs , *NURSING , *NONPROFIT organizations , *SOCIAL constructionism , *GROUNDED theory , *MATHEMATICAL models , *INTERVIEWING , *PRIVATE sector , *HUMAN services programs , *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *ACTION research , *THEORY , *PUBLIC sector , *INTERPERSONAL relations , *SOCIAL skills , *JUDGMENT sampling , *HEALTH promotion , *PALLIATIVE treatment - Abstract
Background: International and national guidelines state that palliative care should be offered to everyone who needs it. To promote the implementation of palliative care in nursing homes, a partnership collaboration was initiated with the goal of implementing high quality palliative care. The partnership consisted of three partner groups: a project group from a non-profit organisation providing health care, managers at the nursing homes and an academic partner. The aim was to explore the social processes within academic-community partnership in a collaboration project. Methods: Digital focus group discussions were conducted with 16 participants, representing all three partner groups. One individual digital interview was also carried out. A constructivist perspective of a grounded theory approach was used for data analysis. Results: The core category, partnership positioning, covers the social processes of the academic-community partnership in a collaboration project to implement and evaluate health-promoting interventions in clinical health care. The core category was found to have four categories: Pre-positioning, Co-positioning, Re-positioning and GoOn-positioning. The process of partnership positioning is conceptualised in a model. Conclusions: Our findings indicate that a new partnership in an implementation project needs holistic, systemic thinking. To enhance implementation in a collaborative project involving different professionals and actors a plan is required to facilitate positioning activities. The process, the roles and the components need to be clearly defined and documented, and the management of a system requires knowledge of the interrelationships between all the components within the system. The development of a conceptual model of Partnership Positioning contributes to knowledge concerning the social dynamic processes which can be applied to support future academic-community collaboration and/or implementation projects. Trial registration: Not applicable. The present study has not been considered as a clinical trial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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