Background: In order to develop a balanced healthcare system, healthcare integration and inter-professional communication is important and allows for optimum healthcare benefits for a patient and improves cost-effectiveness. The chiropractic profession has been trying to improve inter-professional communication with the medical profession. Kimberly Hospital Complex (KHC) is a tertiary provincial hospital situated in the Northern Cape and since 1998, a permanent chiropractic post exists at this hospital, making it the only state hospital in South Africa with a full-time chiropractic clinic and post. Purpose: To determine the knowledge and perceptions of the medical staff about chiropractic at KHC. Method: This study was achieved by means of a questionnaire, which was modified to suit a South African context by means of a focus group. The questionnaire was personally delivered to 975 medical staff members at KHC. A response rate of 30% (n = 292) was achieved and the data was analysed using SPSS version 15 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, III, USA). Results: The mean age of the respondents was 37.3 years and most were female (78.9%, n = 289). Doctors (62.5%, n = 54) and therapists (61.6%, n = 10) had a higher knowledge percentage score than nurses (48%, n = 213) or other healthcare professions (56.8%, n = 15). Doctors (77.8%, n = 42), therapists (100%, n = 10) and other healthcare professions (69.2%, n = 9) were more inclined to think that chiropractic is an alternative healthcare service, while nurses perceived chiropractic as a primary healthcare service (43.3%, n = 91). Many respondents were unaware of the fact that Diagnostics, Emergency Medical Care, Pharmacology and Radiology are included in the chiropractic curriculum and that chiropractic leads to a Master’s degree. Seventy five percent (n = 203) believed that chiropractors are competent in the general medical iv management of patients, but they would still rather refer patients to physiotherapists and orthopaedic surgeons. Despite the poor level of knowledge of chiropractic, 79.2% (n = 224) believed that it is sufficiently different from physiotherapy to warrant two separate professions and few (24%, n = 69) perceived it as unscientific. A large proportion of the respondents (80.3%, n = 228) believe that chiropractic is not well promoted in South Africa and only 20.8% (n = 59) felt that they know enough about the profession to advise a patient. The majority wanted to learn more about the chiropractic profession (95.8%, n = 277), especially pertaining to the scope and the treatment employed by chiropractors. Seventy-nine percent (n = 212) believed that patients benefit from chiropractic at KHC and 95.4% (n = 268) felt that South African hospitals would benefit from chiropractic care. Conclusion: Due to the poor level of knowledge at KHC, an educational drive should be employed to educate the medical staff in order to increase their understanding of chiropractic and to aid chiropractic integration into the state hospital system of South Africa.
Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Brandverletzungen bei Kindern sind für die ganze Familie ein traumatisches Erlebnis und mit emotionalen und psychischen Auswirkungen sowie schmerzhaften medizinischen Eingriffen verbunden. Bei Kindern mit einer schwerwiegenden thermischen Verletzung beginnt die edukative Begleitung der Familien bereits bei der Aufnahme ins Krankenhaus und setzt das Wissen um die Bedarfe der Betroffenen voraus. Ziel Aufzeigen der Edukationsbedarfe von Kindern mit Brandverletzung und deren Eltern im stationären Setting. Methode Es wurde ein Scoping Review durchgeführt. Die Methodik orientiert sich an dem sechsstufigen Framework von Arksey und O’Malley. Eingeschlossen wurden Studien, die Kinder mit Brandverletzungen im Alter von 0 bis 18 Jahren sowie deren Eltern während des Krankenhausaufenthaltes berücksichtigen. Die Literaturrecherche wurde in MEDLINE via PubMed durchgeführt, und Referenzen wurden gesichtet. Ergebnisse Insgesamt konnten 3576 Studien identifiziert werden, von denen 21 Studien eingeschlossen wurden. Es ergaben sich 10 qualitative, 7 quantitative Studien sowie 4 Übersichtsarbeiten. In den meisten Studien berichten die betroffenen Kinder und deren Eltern von einem Informations- und Aufklärungsbedarf und dem Wunsch nach emotionaler und psychosozialer Entlastung. Der überwiegende Teil der Studien fokussiert die Erfahrungen von Eltern von Kindern mit Brandverletzungen. Schlussfolgerung Für Betroffene ergeben sich im Rahmen der stationären Versorgung unterschiedliche Bedarfe zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten. Besondere Etappen (z. B. die Entlassung, Verbandwechsel) erfordern einen erhöhten Bedarf an emotionaler und psychosozialer Entlastung, Unterstützung und/oder Information und Aufklärung.
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