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ArticleScandinavian journal of primary health care2024

Clinical practice enhanced by interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives.

Kirsti Malterud, Susanne Reventlow, Ann Dorrit Guassora

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Article in Scandinavian journal of primary health care, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

Kirsti MalterudThe Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-9556-616X
Susanne ReventlowThe Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-4990-142X
Ann Dorrit GuassoraThe Research Unit for General Practice and Section of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-4565-4705

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundExperience-based knowing in general practice includes advanced interpretation of subjective, complex and particular phenomena in a social context. Enabling different metapositions for reflexivity may provide the accountability needed for such knowing to be recognized as evidence-based practice.

objectiveTo demonstrate and discuss the potential of substantive theories to enhance interpretation of complex challenges in clinical knowing in general practice.

methodsWe present a fictional case to demonstrate how interdisciplinary substantive theories, with a relevant and specific match to concrete questions, can situate the clinical interaction at an accountable platform. A female patient with Parkinson's disease consults her GP complaining that the disease is restraining her life and threatening her future. The GP has some new ideas from Bandura's theory of self-efficacy and introduces the patient to strategies for further action.

findingsThe case presents an example of how a relevant substantive theory may offer the GP: 1) a sharper focus for achievement: recognising the issues of fear and identity in chronic, progressive illness, 2) a subsequent position for individualized understanding of adequate strategies: encouraging physical and social activity in a well-known context, and 3) an invitation to consider further possibilities: finding ways to alleviate the burden of fear and progressive decline; engaging in joyful living. IMPLICATIONS: General practice knowledge embraces a diversity of sources with different evidence power. The transparency mediated to clinical practice when supported by relevant substantive theories may contribute to recognition of experience-based knowing as evidence-based practice.

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General PracticeParkinson DiseaseEvidence-Based PracticeFemaleHumansSelf EfficacyClinical medicineevidence-based practiceexperience-based knowledgegeneral practiceinterdisciplinary theories

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PMID38896442
PMCPMC11552296

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