Relieving pressure – An evaluation of Shiatsu treatments for cancer &amp; palliative care patients in an NHS setting

Browne, N.; Bush, Philippa; Cabo, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2018.06.002

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“…Other studies have identif ied certain shortcomings of CITs assessment forms when trying to convey information that may be relevant to research studies, such as f requency and duration of CIT treatments. (40)(41)(42) Therefore, IMTEF includes NHS number (or similar) to identify the patient and to easily compute number of sessions received. It also includes approximate duration of treatment, time in which treatment took place and, to take into account possible cluster effects, (43)(44)(45) location of treatment and name of therapist.…”

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The Development, Validity, and Responsiveness of a Patient-Centred Outcome Measurement Tool for Evaluating Integrative Medicine Interventions

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Neil Browne

2023

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Background: The paper sets out the development, validity, and responsiveness of the Integrative Medicine Treatment Evaluation Form (IMTEF), which has been designed to measure the effects of complementary and integrative therapy (CIT) interventions in cancer and palliative care (PC) patients in a National Health Service (NHS) hospital setting. Treatment evaluation is essential for ensuring safety and quality of services, for meeting NHS governance requirements. It also helps to add to the evidence base for complementary and integrative therapies through collecting data about treatments. Methods: A number of different Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) tools were reviewed in order to design the IMTEF, which details questions that captures both quantitative and qualitative data. The IMTEF was reviewed by patients and a range of health care practitioners. Results: IMTEF’s validity is supported by feedback from health care practitioners and patients, by its ability to detect different degrees of change in relation to change scores, and by its correlations with Visual Analog Scale (VAS) scores. Conclusion: The IMTEF can be used to assess the effects of therapeutic bodywork and CITs when many of the patients do not have the capacity or the time to answer many questions, and when therapists do not know in advance the number of treatments that patients will be able to receive. Because of the way it is structured, it can also assess the effects after a number of sessions.

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