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Protocol paper for the ‘Harnessing resources from the internet to maximise outcomes from GP consultations (HaRI)’ study: a mixed qualitative methods study
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Seguin, Maureen, Hall, Laura, Atherton, Helen, Barnes, Rebecca, Leydon, Geraldine, Murray, Elizabeth, Pope, Catherine, Ziebland, Sue and Stevenson, Fiona A. (2018) Protocol paper for the ‘Harnessing resources from the internet to maximise outcomes from GP consultations (HaRI)’ study: a mixed qualitative methods study. BMJ Open, 8 . e024188. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024188 ISSN 2044-6055.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024188
Abstract
Introduction
Many patients now turn to the internet as a resource for healthcare information and advice. However, patients’ use of the internet to manage their health has been positioned as a potential source of strain on the doctor–patient relationship in primary care. The current evidence about what happens when internet-derived health information is introduced during consultations has relied on qualitative data derived from interview or questionnaire studies. The ‘Harnessing resources from the internet to maximise outcomes from GP consultations (HaRI)’ study combines questionnaire, interview and video-recorded consultation data to address this issue more fully.
Methods and analysis
Three data collection methods are employed: preconsultation patient questionnaires, video-recorded consultations between general practitioners (GP) and patients, and semistructured interviews with GPs and patients. We seek to recruit 10 GPs practising in Southeast England. We aim to collect up to 30 patient questionnaires and video-recorded consultations per GP, yielding up to 300. Up to 30 patients (approximately three per participating GP) will be selected for interviews sampled for a wide range of sociodemographic characteristics, and a variety of ways the use of, or information from, the internet was present or absent during their consultation. We will interview all 10 participating GPs about their views of online health information, reflecting on their own usage of online information during consultations and their patients’ references to online health information. Descriptive, conversation and thematic analysis will be used respectively for the patient questionnaires, video-recorded consultations and interviews.
Ethics and dissemination
Ethical approval has been granted by the London–Camden & Kings Cross Research Ethics Committee. Alongside journal publications, dissemination activities include the creation of a toolkit to be shared with patients and doctors, to guide discussions of material from the internet in consultations
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Primary care (Medicine), Physician and patient, Internet in medicine | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Open | ||||||
Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||
ISSN: | 2044-6055 | ||||||
Official Date: | 10 August 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 8 | ||||||
Article Number: | e024188 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024188 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 June 2018 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 August 2018 | ||||||
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