Implementing Lived Experience Workshops in Regional Areas of British Columbia to Enhance Clinicians' Confidence in Spinal Cord Injury Care: An Evaluation

Implementing Lived Experience Workshops in Regional Areas of British Columbia to Enhance Clinicians' Confidence in Spinal Cord Injury Care: An Evaluation

In British Columbia (BC), there are challenges accessing specialized spinal cord injury care and resources. This paper evaluated the impact of spinal cord injury health educational workshops delivered in regional communities that were informed by persons with lived experience. A community survey was...

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Published in:Healthcare (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 7; p. 731
Main Authors: Prins, Hannah, Donia, Scott, Rockall, Shannon, Hektner, James, Hawes, Spring, Laskin, James J, Chernesky, John, Noonan, Vanessa K
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01-04-2024
Subjects:
Aging
Care and treatment
Chronic illnesses
Chronic pain
Community
Diagnosis
Education
Health care
Health education
healthcare delivery
Influence
Knowledge
knowledge translation
medical education
Methods
Physical therapists
Prevention
Quality improvement
quality in healthcare
regional healthcare
Rural areas
Spasticity
Spinal cord injuries
spinal cord injury
Study and teaching
Urban areas
Workshops
British Columbia
Canada
spinal cord injury
quality in healthcare
medical education
regional healthcare
healthcare delivery
community needs
knowledge translation
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Summary:In British Columbia (BC), there are challenges accessing specialized spinal cord injury care and resources. This paper evaluated the impact of spinal cord injury health educational workshops delivered in regional communities that were informed by persons with lived experience. A community survey was conducted with 44 persons with lived experience in a BC region to identify priority SCI health-related topics. Twenty-five topics were ranked from 1-14, with bowel and bladder management ranked 1 and 4, sexual health ranked 5, and pressure injuries ranked 7. Clinical perspectives on the priorities were collected from 102 clinicians in the BC region, who independently ranked 14 of these SCI topics and considered the former 4 topics to be lower clinical priority (ranked 11-14). These priorities informed a series of SCI clinical education workshops held at healthcare facilities in three regional cities. The goals were to improve clinicians' knowledge and confidence levels when managing spinal cord injury health and to facilitate person-centred care. Positive feedback demonstrated that educational workshops supported by lived experience perspectives effectively enhanced the clinicians' understanding of spinal cord injury and their priorities. Future plans include engaging more administrators as part of this initiative and conducting workshops in other regions of BC.
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ISSN:2227-9032
2227-9032
DOI:10.3390/healthcare12070731