Project Details
Projekt
Health- and social care institutions as providers of health information on early childhood allergy prevention for parents: qualitative implementation study (USER NEEDS)
Applicant
Dr. Jonas Lander
Subject Area
Public Health, Healthcare Research, Social and Occupational Medicine
Term
since 2024
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 409800133
To understand which measures may reduce a child’s allergy risk and to learn about the meaning of allergy prevention more generally, parents deem health- and social care providers such as pediatricians, midwives, child care staff and family centers as crucial sources, given their trustful relation and regular, personal contact. However, respective institutions and professions fulfill a range of distinct, often care-related roles and tasks and cannot per se be considered 'health information providers'. Further, recent research suggests that although scientific allergy prevention evidence is often known by health professionals, it is not communicated actively. The objectives of this study are to: 1) assess which local and regional health- and social care institutions are available to provide ECAP information to parents and which barriers, facilitators and preferences they perceive for this task, 2) develop an implementation strategy and test the provision of ECAP information to parents via health and social care institutions (implementation planning and conduct, and 3) evaluate implementation outcomes from the perspective of ECAP information providers and receivers. The projects consists of seven consecutive tasks structured according to the "Implementation Research Logic Model" by Smith et al. (2020): First, we will set up a patient-public involvement panel consisting of parents of young children to inform relevant steps of the research project. In task 2, we will explore which regional and local health and social care providers may serve as ECAP information providers by conducting a stakeholder mapping. The mapping will be used to approach identified actors for qualitative interviews to assess implementation facilitators and barriers in task 3. Fourth, we will develop exemplary ECAP information materials, which, in task 5, will be provided by pre-selected health- and social providers to parents within the Hannover region during a six-month pilot-implementation phase. In task 6, we will adapt task 3 - task 5 for parents with recent migration backgrounds, to account for the needs and preferences of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. In task 7, we will evaluate the pilot-implementation process regarding core implementation outcomes (e.g. acceptability, feasibility, effectiveness) by interviewing ECAP information providers and by surveying ECAP information receivers. Within the research group, we will collaborate a) with WP1 (Conflicts of interest) and WP2 (Living systematic reviews) to summarize and translate ECAP evidence for parents, b) with WP3 (Health professionals) to mutually inform approaches to access study participants and the didactic and content-wise features of the ECAP intervention and information formats, and c) with WP7 (Planetary health) to explore how to incorporate aspects and key messages about planetary health into parental ECAP information.
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