Dr Antonella Tonna a.tonna@rgu.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Dr Antonella Tonna a.tonna@rgu.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer
Geraldine Anthony
Ivan Tonna
Vibhu Paudyal
Dr Katrina Forbes-McKay k.e.forbes-mckay@rgu.ac.uk
Lecturer
Rob Laing
Alexander Mackenzie
Sharon Falconer
Gillian McCartney
Derek Stewart
Objectives: This study aimed to use a theoretical approach to understand the determinants of behaviour in patients not home self-administering intravenous antibiotics. Setting: Outpatient care: included patients were attending an outpatient clinic for intravenous antibiotic administration in the northeast of Scotland. Participants: Patients were included if they had received more than 7 days of intravenous antibiotics and were aged 16 years and over. Twenty potential participants were approached, and all agreed to be interviewed. 13 were male with a mean age of 54 years (SD +17.6). Outcomes: Key behavioural determinants that influenced patients’ behaviours relating to self-administration of intravenous antibiotics. Design: Qualitative, semistructured in-depth interviews were undertaken with a purposive sample of patients. An interview schedule, underpinned by the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), was developed, reviewed for credibility and piloted. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed thematically using the TDF as the coding framework. Results: The key behavioural determinants emerging as encouraging patients to self-administer intravenous antibiotics were the perceptions of being sufficiently knowledgeable, skilful and competent and that self-administration afforded the potential to work while administering treatment. The key determinants that impacted their decision not to self-administer were lack of knowledge of available options, a perception that hospital staff are better trained and anxieties of potential complications. Conclusion: Though patients are appreciative of the skills and knowledge of hospital staff, there is also a willingness among patients to home self-administer antibiotics. However, the main barrier emerges to be a perceived lack of knowledge of ways of doing this at home. To overcome this, a number of interventions are suggested based on evidence-based behavioural change techniques.
TONNA, A., ANTHONY, G., TONNA, I., PAUDYAL, V., FORBES-MCKAY, K., LAING, R., MACKENZIE, A., FALCONER, S., MCCARTNEY, G. and STEWART, D. 2019. Home self-administration of intravenous antibiotics as part of an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy service: a qualitative study of the perspectives of patients who do not self-administer. BMJ open [online], 9(1), article ID e027475. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027475
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Dec 7, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 25, 2019 |
Publication Date | Jan 31, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Feb 11, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 11, 2019 |
Journal | BMJ open |
Electronic ISSN | 2044-6055 |
Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | e027475 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027475 |
Keywords | Self-administering; Intravenous antibiotics; NE Scotland; Key behavioural determinants |
Public URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10059/3285 |
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