Kidney transplant patients’ attitudes towards self-management support: A Q-methodological study

Self‐management challenges and support needs among kidney transplant recipients: A qualitative study

“…Instead, nurses tended to provide standardized patient education rather than tailoring, as has previously been reported (Been-Dahmen et al, 2015). Given that participants vary in their attitude, needs and preferences towards self-management support, personalized support after kidney transplantation is necessary (Grijpma et al, 2016 Having a relationship of trust was reported as conditional to receiving any kind of support. This is in line with previous studies, which have found that partnership between nurses and recipients is an important prerequisite to successful self-management support (Bodenheimer, Lorig, Holman, & Grumbach, 2002;Lorig & Holman, 2003 In this study, kidney transplantation was reported to be a major life-event with emotional impact.…”

A Nurse-Led Self-Management Support Intervention (ZENN) for Kidney Transplant Recipients Using Intervention Mapping: Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study (Preprint)

“…However, one size does not fit all and SMS should be adapted to individual needs and circumstances. This was confirmed in a Q-methodological study which found differing attitudes towards self-management support [29].…”

Profiles of family caregivers of patients at the end of life at home: a Q-methodological study into family caregiver’ support needs

“…Family caregivers with the same views shared the same factor. The final factor solution was selected by calculating factor loadings to determine which Q-sorts load onto each factor and by investigating the qualitative data to assess support for the factor solution [29]. Factors were retained if they had an eigenvalue > 1, had at least two Q-sorts that loaded onto the factor and were coherent, differentiated, interpretable and meaningful in a qualitative manner [32,44].…”

“…We used Q-methodology to identify family caregiver profiles. In recent years, this method has been widely used in the field of healthcare research [17,22,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. Q-methodology combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in order to identify groups of persons who share similar viewpoints about a specific topic and therefore belong to a certain type or profile [32,33].…”