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Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices
BACKGROUND: The portability and multiple functionalities of mobile devices make them well suited for collecting field data for naturalistic research, which is often beset with complexities in recruitment and logistics. This paper describes the implementation of a research protocol using mobile devic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6199701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0353-x |
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author | Lavoie, Patrick Clarke, Sean P Clausen, Christina Purden, Margaret Emed, Jessica Mailhot, Tanya Frunchak, Valerie |
author_facet | Lavoie, Patrick Clarke, Sean P Clausen, Christina Purden, Margaret Emed, Jessica Mailhot, Tanya Frunchak, Valerie |
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description | BACKGROUND: The portability and multiple functionalities of mobile devices make them well suited for collecting field data for naturalistic research, which is often beset with complexities in recruitment and logistics. This paper describes the implementation of a research protocol using mobile devices to study nurses’ exchanges of patient information at change of shift. METHODS: Nurses from three medical and surgical units of an acute care teaching hospital in Montreal, Canada, were invited to participate. On 10 selected days, participants were asked to record their handoffs using mobile devices and to complete paper questionnaires regarding these exchanges. Nurse acceptance of mobile devices was assessed using a 30-item technology acceptance questionnaire and focus group interviews. The principal feasibility indicator was whether or not 80 complete handoffs could be collected on each unit. RESULTS: From October to December 2017, 63 of 108 eligible nurses completed the study. Results suggest that the use of mobile devices was acceptable to nurses, who felt that the devices were easy to use but did not improve their job performance. The principal feasibility criterion was met, with complete data collected for 176, 84, and 170 of the eligible handoffs on each unit (81% of eligible handoffs). The research protocol was acceptable to nurses, who felt the study’s demands did not interfere with their clinical work. CONCLUSIONS: The research protocol involving mobile devices was feasible and acceptable to nurses. Nurses felt the research protocol, including the use of mobile devices, required minimal investment of time and effort. This suggests that their decision to participate in research involving mobile devices was based on their perception that the study protocol and the use of the device would not be demanding. Further work is needed to determine if studies involving more sophisticated and possibly more demanding technology would be equally feasible and acceptable to nurses. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40814-018-0353-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-61997012018-10-31 Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices Lavoie, Patrick Clarke, Sean P Clausen, Christina Purden, Margaret Emed, Jessica Mailhot, Tanya Frunchak, Valerie Pilot Feasibility Stud Research BACKGROUND: The portability and multiple functionalities of mobile devices make them well suited for collecting field data for naturalistic research, which is often beset with complexities in recruitment and logistics. This paper describes the implementation of a research protocol using mobile devices to study nurses’ exchanges of patient information at change of shift. METHODS: Nurses from three medical and surgical units of an acute care teaching hospital in Montreal, Canada, were invited to participate. On 10 selected days, participants were asked to record their handoffs using mobile devices and to complete paper questionnaires regarding these exchanges. Nurse acceptance of mobile devices was assessed using a 30-item technology acceptance questionnaire and focus group interviews. The principal feasibility indicator was whether or not 80 complete handoffs could be collected on each unit. RESULTS: From October to December 2017, 63 of 108 eligible nurses completed the study. Results suggest that the use of mobile devices was acceptable to nurses, who felt that the devices were easy to use but did not improve their job performance. The principal feasibility criterion was met, with complete data collected for 176, 84, and 170 of the eligible handoffs on each unit (81% of eligible handoffs). The research protocol was acceptable to nurses, who felt the study’s demands did not interfere with their clinical work. CONCLUSIONS: The research protocol involving mobile devices was feasible and acceptable to nurses. Nurses felt the research protocol, including the use of mobile devices, required minimal investment of time and effort. This suggests that their decision to participate in research involving mobile devices was based on their perception that the study protocol and the use of the device would not be demanding. Further work is needed to determine if studies involving more sophisticated and possibly more demanding technology would be equally feasible and acceptable to nurses. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40814-018-0353-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2018-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6199701/ /pubmed/30386630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0353-x Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Lavoie, Patrick Clarke, Sean P Clausen, Christina Purden, Margaret Emed, Jessica Mailhot, Tanya Frunchak, Valerie Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title | Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title_full | Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title_fullStr | Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title_full_unstemmed | Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title_short | Acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
title_sort | acceptability and feasibility of recruitment and data collection in a field study of hospital nurses’ handoffs using mobile devices |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6199701/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30386630 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0353-x |
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