A Model for Patient Engagement Integration in Perinatal eHealth development and Quality Assurance

MSc Jennifer Auxier esittää hoitotieteen väitöskirjansa ”A Model for Patient Engagement Integration in Perinatal eHealth development and Quality Assurance” julkisesti tarkastettavaksi Turun yliopistossa perjantaina 30.6.2023 klo 12.00

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The aim of our study was to construct a model for ensuring the use of patient engagement principles in the development and quality evaluation of perinatal eHealth systems. The popularity of patient engagement for use in measuring quality of eHealth services in high- and middle-income countries has preceded its measurability. In our study we identified the practices of patient engagement that are emerging from the use of eHealth technologies in the context of perinatal care. We noted that process evaluation was lacking in the current research on perinatal eHealth development and evaluation and that behavioral engagement is very often captured as a metric for patient engagement however it is not consistently associated with benefits for perinatal eHealth users.

We looked closely at identifying the processes of patient engagement when developing, designing, and testing perinatal eHealth systems. Through a series of sub-studies we constructed a model for Patient Engagement Integration in Perinatal eHealth development and quality assurance. A scoping review aimed at describing the nature and range of patient engagement within the context of perinatal eHealth.

A pilot study was conducted in Finland, testing a self-monitoring eHealth system. The sub-study resulted in two separate investigations, first we described the relationship between behavioural engagement (wear-time of a smart device) and sleep and stress trends, further we performed a mixed-methods examination of the patterns of practices and adaptation that occurred once pregnant persons accessed the self-monitoring system according to a user group comparison.

In the fourth sub-study we conducted the development of a process evaluation measure for participation and collaboration of parents experiencing the NICU admission and stay of their newborns in two NICU units in Amsterdam. The final construction of the model was performed using Interpretive Synthesis and ground theory approaches and resulted in the naming of three iterative steps to development and quality assurance of perinatal eHealth systems: (1) Person-centred Mapping; (2) Process evaluation integration; and (3) Co-creation of perinatal eHealth programs through real-life testing.

MSc Jennifer Auxier esittää väitöskirjansa ”A Model for Patient Engagement Integration in Perinatal eHealth development and Quality Assurance” julkisesti tarkastettavaksi Turun yliopistossa perjantaina 30.6.2023 klo 12.00 (Turun yliopisto, Medisiina C, Osmo Järvi -luentosali, Turku).

Vastaväittäjänä toimii professori Yvonne Fontein-Kuipers (Edinburgh Napier University, Skotlanti) ja kustoksena apulaisprofessori Anna Axelin (Turun yliopisto). Tilaisuus on englanninkielinen.

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Tekstikooste: Katja Kosonen