Implementation of a multicomponent psychosocial programme for persons with dementia and their families in Norwegian municipalities: experiences from the perspective of healthcare professionals who performed the intervention

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Aud JohannessenIngun Ulstein

Abstract

A randomised controlled intervention study was conducted in 17 Norwegian municipalities to provide home-dwelling people with dementia and their families with knowledge and skills to cope with the emerging problems and stresses of everyday life. It included training health professionals to carry out the intervention. Since little is known about possible benefits for health professionals of participating in such a study in terms of knowledge and change of practice as well as their views on whether the intervention is useful, we carried out this study. To investigate the outcome of the study from the perspective of the healthcare professionals who participated in the intervention. Interviews with 19 health professionals were performed during 2012, using three focus groups and six individual interviews. The sample was purposive and included informants aged 34-61 years from 13 municipalities. Three main categories emerged: challenges, new knowledge and service development. The category challenges details the challenges connected with professionals' participation in the intervention and how they dealt with them and is described in three subcategories. The category new knowledge demonstrates the knowledge the professionals achieved wh...Continue Reading

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