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Integrating Patient‐reported Experience (PRE) in a multistage approach to study access to health services for women with chronic illness and migration experience.
- Source :
- Health Expectations; Feb2023, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p237-244, 8p, 1 Graph
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Background: Patient‐reported Experience (PRE) is an emerging concept integrating patient perspectives and amplifying voices often marginalized in discussions surrounding health systems. However, it remains a challenge to use and integrate PREs when studying patient agency and access to quality services, particularly with data from multiple sources. In this article, using study materials from the Swiss MIWOCA project, we present and reflect upon a multistage PRE approach to study healthcare access. Methods: The MIWOCA project, a study on healthcare access and quality among immigrant women with chronic illnesses living in Switzerland, provided data from multiple sources for the integration of PRE data. These sources included interviews with women (n = 48), two focus group discussions with women (n = 15), interviews with service providers (n = 12) and observations from stakeholder dialogues (n = 3). In addition, we utilized field notes, focus group illustration maps, patient vignettes and policy briefs to develop a multistage data linking model. PRE data served as starting themes and reference topics in each of the interlinked stages of knowledge production. Results: Deploying PREs, we coherently linked the data from preceding stages and used them to inform subsequent stages. This, in turn, enabled us to identify, reflect and rectify factors limiting immigrant women's agency and access to quality services. Ultimately, the approach engaged patients as knowledge co‐producers for system‐level changes. This knowledge was transformed into a set of practice recommendations and a policy brief addressing ways to improve health systems to better serve immigrant women in Switzerland. Conclusions: Building on PREs to systematically combine multiple data sources and engage patients continuously can improve our understanding of barriers in health systems. Beyond individual patient‐doctor encounters, a multistage PRE approach can identify structural problems and provide clues for resolving them at the systems level. The PREs approach presented may serve as an example and encourage more public health experts to consider PREs in future research and practice. Patient and Public Contribution: Women with chronic illness and immigration experience contributed to interview‐guideline development, provided PREs in interviews, identified priority areas for health‐service change and actively participated in the development of practice recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMIGRATION & immigration & psychology
IMMIGRANTS
HEALTH policy
HEALTH services accessibility
FOCUS groups
CHRONIC diseases
RESEARCH methodology
STAKEHOLDER analysis
INTERVIEWING
EXPERIENCE
PATIENTS' attitudes
QUALITATIVE research
PSYCHOLOGY of women
QUALITY assurance
HEALTH attitudes
RESEARCH funding
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
CASE studies
FIELD notes (Science)
HEALTH equity
PARTICIPANT observation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13696513
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Expectations
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161472425
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13649