ArticleBMC health services research2019
Acceptability and feasibility of a virtual community of practice to primary care professionals regarding patient empowerment: a qualitative pilot study.
Article in BMC health services research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02757781 (Effectiveness of a Virtual Intervention), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effectiveness of a Virtual Intervention (CoP) for Professionals to Improve Their Attitude Towards the Empowerment of Patients With Chronic Disease: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (eMPODERA Project)
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The aims and effectiveness of communities of practice in healthcare: A systematic review.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- A Virtual Community of Practice to Improve Primary Health Care Professionals' Attitudes Toward Patient Empowerment (e-MPODERA): A Cluster Randomized Trial.Annals of family medicineTrial
- Evaluating a Virtual Community-of-Practice as Implementation Strategy for the Needs Assessment Framework in Intellectual Disability Care: A Quasi-Experimental Multi-Methods Study.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2025Article
- Reflexive Views of Virtual Communities of Practice among Informal and Formal Caregivers of People with a Dementia Disease.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Non-communicable diseases, digital education and considerations for the Indian context - a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Exploring value creation in a virtual community of practice: a framework analysis for knowledge and skills development among primary care professionals.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- On the advantages and disadvantages of virtual continuing medical education: a scoping review.Canadian medical education journal · 2023Article
- HIV in MOTION: a community of practice on physical rehabilitation for and by people living with HIV and their allies.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Article
- Building a virtual community of practice: experience from the Canadian foundation for healthcare improvement's policy circle.Health research policy and systems · 2022Article
- Are communities of practice a way to support health literacy: a study protocol for a realist review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Co-Design Process of a Virtual Community of Practice for the Empowerment of People with Ischemic Heart Disease.International journal of integrated care · 2020Article
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- Living with advanced heart failure: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2020Article
- Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions about the Implementation of Shared Decision-Making in Primary Care: A Qualitative Study from a Virtual Community of Practice.International journal of integrated careArticle
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backgroundVirtual communities of practice (vCoPs) facilitate online learning via the exchange of experiences and knowledge between interested participants. Compared to other communities, vCoPs need to overcome technological structures and specific barriers. Our objective was to pilot the acceptability and feasibility of a vCoP aimed at improving the attitudes of primary care professionals to the empowerment of patients with chronic conditions.
methodsWe used a qualitative approach based on 2 focus groups: one composed of 6 general practitioners and the other of 6 practice nurses. Discussion guidelines on the topics to be investigated were provided to the moderator. Sessions were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was performed using the ATLAS-ti software.
resultsThe available operating systems and browsers and the lack of suitable spaces and time were reported as the main difficulties with the vCoP. The vCoP was perceived to be a flexible learning mode that provided up-to-date resources applicable to routine practice and offered a space for the exchange of experiences and approaches.
conclusionsThe results from this pilot study show that the vCoP was considered useful for learning how to empower patients. However, while vCoPs have the potential to facilitate learning and as shown create professional awareness regarding patient empowerment, attention needs to be paid to technological and access issues and the time demands on professionals. We collected relevant inputs to improve the features, content and educational methods to be included in further vCoP implementation.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov , NCT02757781 . Registered on 25 April 2016.
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