Professionals' health conceptions of clients with psychosocial problems: An analysis based on an empirical exploration of semi-structured interviews.

Concept formation Culture Health Health personnel Interview Methods Professionalism Qualitative methods Social workers

Journal

International journal of nursing studies advances
ISSN: 2666-142X
Titre abrégé: Int J Nurs Stud Adv
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101769252

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 09 08 2022
revised: 23 02 2023
accepted: 03 03 2023
medline: 5 3 2023
pubmed: 5 3 2023
entrez: 15 5 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The care of clients with complex psychosocial problems involves diverse frontline professionals such as general practitioners, psychiatric nurses, police officers, social support consultants and debt counselors. As these professionals have different professional backgrounds and work in different organizations, their health conceptions, or beliefs about what constitutes health and how this should be pursued, may also differ. Having an understanding of various frontline professionals' health conceptions is relevant, as these may affect interprofessional collaboration in their work with clients with psychosocial problems. To understand various frontline professionals' health conceptions. Inductive qualitative approach. The Hague, the Netherlands. Various frontline professionals from social welfare, general healthcare and mental healthcare, working with clients with complex psychosocial problems. Between September 2020 and April 2021, 23 in-depth semi- structured interviews were conducted with frontline professionals in social welfare, general healthcare and mental healthcare. Based on these interviews, this paper analyzes frontline professionals' health conceptions. After transcription, all interviews were imported into ATLAS.ti for analysis. An iterative process of thematic analysis was used to identify health conception dimensions. The paper found that frontline professionals' health conceptions differ in three main aspects: 1) health definitions, 2) alignment with clients and 3) contextualization of clients' health. The main implication of this research is that this inductive analysis of health conceptions provides a first building block in theorizing frontline professionals' health promotion practices. Knowing about professional's health conceptions gives insight into how health is understood and how good health can best be achieved, which is important in caring for vulnerable clients.

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Background UNASSIGNED
The care of clients with complex psychosocial problems involves diverse frontline professionals such as general practitioners, psychiatric nurses, police officers, social support consultants and debt counselors. As these professionals have different professional backgrounds and work in different organizations, their health conceptions, or beliefs about what constitutes health and how this should be pursued, may also differ. Having an understanding of various frontline professionals' health conceptions is relevant, as these may affect interprofessional collaboration in their work with clients with psychosocial problems.
Objective UNASSIGNED
To understand various frontline professionals' health conceptions.
Design UNASSIGNED
Inductive qualitative approach.
Setting UNASSIGNED
The Hague, the Netherlands.
Participants UNASSIGNED
Various frontline professionals from social welfare, general healthcare and mental healthcare, working with clients with complex psychosocial problems.
Methods UNASSIGNED
Between September 2020 and April 2021, 23 in-depth semi- structured interviews were conducted with frontline professionals in social welfare, general healthcare and mental healthcare. Based on these interviews, this paper analyzes frontline professionals' health conceptions. After transcription, all interviews were imported into ATLAS.ti for analysis. An iterative process of thematic analysis was used to identify health conception dimensions.
Results UNASSIGNED
The paper found that frontline professionals' health conceptions differ in three main aspects: 1) health definitions, 2) alignment with clients and 3) contextualization of clients' health.
Conclusions UNASSIGNED
The main implication of this research is that this inductive analysis of health conceptions provides a first building block in theorizing frontline professionals' health promotion practices.
Tweetable abstract UNASSIGNED
Knowing about professional's health conceptions gives insight into how health is understood and how good health can best be achieved, which is important in caring for vulnerable clients.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100120 PMID: 38746562 PMC: PMC11080445
pubmed: 38746562
doi: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100120
pii: S2666-142X(23)00004-8
pmc: PMC11080445
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100120

Informations de copyright

© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Auteurs

Fia van Heteren (F)

Department of Public Health and Primary Care/Health Campus The Hague, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 13228, 2501 EE The Hague, The Netherlands.
Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Nadine Raaphorst (N)

Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Sandra Groeneveld (S)

Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Jet Bussemaker (J)

Department of Public Health and Primary Care/Health Campus The Hague, Leiden University Medical Centre, P.O. Box 13228, 2501 EE The Hague, The Netherlands.
Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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