Engaging Patients in Mutual Goal-Setting in Hospitalized Patients

Marquette University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Goals

Treatments: Other: Mutual Goal-Setting Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04977206

HR-3725

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mutual goal setting and action planning in patients with long-term conditions in outpatient settings is associated with favorable effects on measures of physical health, psychological health, subjective health status, self-management self-efficacy levels, activation levels, and perceived empowerment. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of an educational intervention delivered to the staff nurses of two surgical units on how to engage patients in mutual goal-setting in the acute care setting. Staff nurses from two 32-bed surgical units will be scheduled to attend an hour-long educational intervention. A total of 630 chart audits will be conducted one month prior and one and three months following the intervention per unit, to examine the number of patients with a daily goal recorded in the prior 24 hours and the quality of the recorded goal using the SMART-GEM. The self-efficacy of engaging in mutual goal-setting with patients will be examined by asking nurses to complete the Appraisal Inventory Tool (AIT) prior to and immediately following the intervention. The patient experience of engaging in mutual goal-setting will be examined by having a total of 165 patients complete the Patient Experience of Mutual Goal-Setting Tool (PEMGST) one month prior to the intervention and one and three months following the intervention on each of the two units.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• At least 18 years of age or older
• Must be alert and oriented to person, place, and time
• Inpatient on one of two included units

Exclusion Criteria

• Less than 24 hour length of stay
• Non English-speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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500 participants in 2 patient groups

No Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients receiving usual care

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patient's receiving care following nurse education on mutual goal-setting

Treatment:

Other: Mutual Goal-Setting Education