Social processes in academic-community partnership in health care : A grounded theory study.

Institution of Health Care Sciences, Palliative Research Centre Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Stockholm, Sweden 2021

BACKGROUND: International and national guidelines state that palliative care should be offered to everyone who needs it. To promote the implementation of palliative care in nursing homes, a partnership collaboration was initiated with the goal of implementing high quality palliative care. The partnership consisted of three partner groups: a project group from a non-profit organisation providing health care, managers at the nursing homes and an academic partner. The aim was to explore the social processes within academic-community partnership in a collaboration project. METHODS: Digital focus group discussions were conducted with 16 participants, representing all three partner groups. One individual digital interview was also carried out. A constructivist perspective of a grounded theory approach was used for data analysis. RESULTS: The core category, partnership positioning, covers the social processes of the academic-community partnership in a collaboration project to implement and evaluate health-promoting interventions in clinical health care. The core category was found to have four categories: Pre-positioning, Co-positioning, Re-positioning and GoOn-positioning. The process of partnership positioning is conceptualised in a model. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate that a new partnership in an implementation project needs holistic, systemic thinking. To enhance implementation in a collaborative project involving different professionals and actors a plan is required to facilitate positioning activities. The process, the roles and the components need to be clearly defined and documented, and the management of a system requires knowledge of the interrelationships between all the components within the system. The development of a conceptual model of Partnership Positioning contributes to knowledge concerning the social dynamic processes which can be applied to support future academic-community collaboration and/or implementation projects. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Not app

Community-based participatory research; Cooperative behavior; Grounded theory; Implementation science; Intersectoral collaboration; Nursing care; Palliative care; Public-private sector partnership; Qualitative research; Social interaction; Nursing; Omvårdnad; Article in journal; info:eu-repo/semantics/article; text

10.1186.s12912-021-00784-z

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