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Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

BACKGROUND: Receiving the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition (MNDC) can be a life-changing experience. Although several studies of individuals’ experiences have indicated dissatisfaction with aspects of how an MNDC diagnosis was communicated, few studies have addressed doctors’ experie...

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Autores principales: Anestis, Eleftherios, Eccles, Fiona J. R., Fletcher, Ian, Simpson, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10155430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37138217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-023-03233-3
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Eccles, Fiona J. R.
Fletcher, Ian
Simpson, Jane
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description BACKGROUND: Receiving the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition (MNDC) can be a life-changing experience. Although several studies of individuals’ experiences have indicated dissatisfaction with aspects of how an MNDC diagnosis was communicated, few studies have addressed doctors’ experiences of breaking bad news for these conditions, especially from a qualitative perspective. This study explored UK neurologists’ lived experience of delivering an MNDC diagnosis. METHODS: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used as the overarching method. Eight consultant neurologists working with patients with MNDCs took part in individual, semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: Two themes were constructed from the data: ‘Meeting patients’ emotional and information needs at diagnosis: a balancing act between disease, patient and organization-related factors’, and ‘Empathy makes the job harder: the emotional impact and uncovered vulnerabilities associated with breaking bad news’. Breaking the news of an MNDC diagnosis was challenging for participants, both in terms of achieving a patient-centred approach and in terms of dealing with their own emotions during the process. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the study’s findings an attempt to explain sub-optimal diagnostic experiences documented in patient studies was made and how organizational changes can support neurologists with this demanding clinical task was discussed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12883-023-03233-3.
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spelling pubmed-101554302023-05-04 Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis Anestis, Eleftherios Eccles, Fiona J. R. Fletcher, Ian Simpson, Jane BMC Neurol Research BACKGROUND: Receiving the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition (MNDC) can be a life-changing experience. Although several studies of individuals’ experiences have indicated dissatisfaction with aspects of how an MNDC diagnosis was communicated, few studies have addressed doctors’ experiences of breaking bad news for these conditions, especially from a qualitative perspective. This study explored UK neurologists’ lived experience of delivering an MNDC diagnosis. METHODS: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used as the overarching method. Eight consultant neurologists working with patients with MNDCs took part in individual, semi-structured interviews. RESULTS: Two themes were constructed from the data: ‘Meeting patients’ emotional and information needs at diagnosis: a balancing act between disease, patient and organization-related factors’, and ‘Empathy makes the job harder: the emotional impact and uncovered vulnerabilities associated with breaking bad news’. Breaking the news of an MNDC diagnosis was challenging for participants, both in terms of achieving a patient-centred approach and in terms of dealing with their own emotions during the process. CONCLUSIONS: Based on the study’s findings an attempt to explain sub-optimal diagnostic experiences documented in patient studies was made and how organizational changes can support neurologists with this demanding clinical task was discussed. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12883-023-03233-3. BioMed Central 2023-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10155430/ /pubmed/37138217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-023-03233-3 Text en © Crown 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Simpson, Jane
Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title_full Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title_fullStr Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title_full_unstemmed Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title_short Neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
title_sort neurologists’ lived experiences of communicating the diagnosis of a motor neurodegenerative condition: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10155430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37138217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-023-03233-3
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