Oostendorp, Linda, Durand, Marie-Anne, Lloyd, Amy  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9181-4488 and Elwyn, Glyn
2015.
Measuring organisational readiness for patient engagement (MORE): an international online delphi consensus study.
BMC Health Services Research
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10.1186/s12913-015-0717-3
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Abstract
Background Widespread implementation of patient engagement by organisations and clinical teams is not a reality yet. The aim of this study is to develop a measure of organisational readiness for patient engagement designed to monitor and facilitate a healthcare organisation’s willingness and ability to effectively implement patient engagement in healthcare. Methods The development of the MORE (Measuring Organisational Readiness for patient Engagement) scale was guided by Weiner’s theory of organisational readiness for change. Weiner postulates that an organisation’s readiness is determined by both the willingness and ability to implement the change (i.e. in this context: patient engagement). A first version of the scale was developed based on a literature search and evaluation of pre-existing tools. We invited multi-disciplinary stakeholders to participate in a two-round online Delphi survey. Respondents were asked to rate the importance of each proposed item, and to comment on the proposed domains and items. Second round participants received feedback from the first round and were asked to re-rate the importance of the revised, new and unchanged items, and to provide comments. Results The first version of the scale contained 51 items divided into three domains: (1) Respondents’ characteristics; (2) the organisation’s willingness to implement patient engagement; and (3) the organisation’s ability to implement patient engagement. 131 respondents from 16 countries (health care managers, policy makers, clinicians, patients and patient representatives, researchers, and other stakeholders) completed the first survey, and 72 of them also completed the second survey. During the Delphi process, 34 items were reworded, 8 new items were added, 5 items were removed, and 18 were combined. The scale’s instructions were revised. The final version of MORE totalled 38 items; 5 on stakeholders, 13 on an organisation’s willingness to implement, and 20 on an organisation’s ability to implement patient engagement in healthcare. Conclusions The Delphi technique was successfully used to refine the scale’s instructions, domains and items, using input from a broad range of international stakeholders, hoping that MORE can be applied in a variety of healthcare contexts worldwide. Further assessment is needed to determine the psychometric properties of the scale.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Patient engagement, Implementation, Organisational readiness, Willingness, Ability, Scale development, Delphi consensus procedure |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central |
| ISSN: | 1472-6963 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 28 January 2015 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2022 10:39 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/85614 |
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