Patient Experiences of the Mobility Enhancing Nursing Intervention (MfP)

At a glance

Project leader : Susanne Suter-Riederer
Project team : Lorenz Imhof
Project status : completed
Funding partner : Other (Schweizerische Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft), Foundation (Stiftung Pflegewissenschaft Schweiz)
Project partner : Private Universität Witten Herdecke gGmbH
Contact person : Maria Schubert

Description

Neurological disease is the most common cause of long-term disability. Approximately 100,000 individuals in Switzerland live with the consequences of cerebrovascular accident (CVA), multiple sclerosis (MS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although the symptoms and limitations experienced vary by diagnosis and the individual’s disease progression, the types of limitations experienced in motor function, body perception and proprioception are similar. Over the years, nurses at the Swiss Rehabilitation Center in Valens have developed an intervention that promotes that mobility, functionality, perception and kinesthetic competence The effectiveness of this mobility promoting nursing intervention (known by its German acronym MfP) in improving functional ability and quality of life has been successfully demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT).It is unclear how the affected patients experience the MfP intervention and what meaning they attribute to the promotion of their kinesthetic competence and mobility. This study aims to gain insight on the patient perspective on this experience.

DesignA qualitative design was selected to provide an opportunity for these affected individuals to speak to their experience, in order to gain insight and understanding of the patient’s personal environment. The interviews were conducted at the conclusion of a randomized controlled trial testing the mobility intervention. We were able to interview the 61 participants (of 70 to start) that completed the intervention. For the qualitative analysis of the collected data, an interpretive phenomenological approach was used.

Expected Benefit This study makes a significant contribution to evidence-based nursing, by providing nurses with insight on the patient experience. This allows the nurse to better read a patient’s reaction and respond appropriately. Moreover, the patient’s expertise is recognized and acknowledged. The knowledge gained enhances nursing practice.

Keywords: Experience, Mobility-enhancing nursing intervention, phenomenology, rehabilitation

Publications

Suter-Riederer, Susanne; Schnepp, W.; Imhof, L.,

2019.

Interventionen zur Förderung der Bewegung von Patientinnen und Patienten mit cerebro-vaskulärem Insult und Multipler Sklerose : eine Literaturanalyse.

Pflegewissenschaft.

21(1/2), pp. 52-60.
Suter-Riederer, Susanne,

2018.

Wirksamkeit mobilitätsfördernder Pflegeinterventionen bei MS und Schlaganfall und Kurzbericht über eine qualitative Studie zum subjektiven Erleben von Patienten in der Bodenpflege.

In:

7. Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurorehabilitation e. V. und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurotraumatologie und Klinische Neurorehabilitation e. V., Erlangen, Deutschland, 6.-8. Dezember 2018.
Suter-Riederer, Susanne; Mahrer Imhof, Romy; Schnepp, W.; Imhof, Lorenz,

2018.

"Kann ich mir das überhaupt zumuten?" : wie Menschen mit zerebralem Insult und Multipler Sklerose die mobilitätsfördernde Pflegeintervention auf dem Boden erleben.

Journal für Qualitative Forschung in Pflege- und Gesundheitswissenschaft.

5(2), pp. 90-99.
Suter-Riederer, Susanne; Valär, Cilly,

2018.

Die Mobilitätsfördernde Pflegeintervention (MFP) in der Rehabilitation und im Akutspital.

In:

Fachtagung «Kinaesthetics trifft Forschung» des GDI Rüschlikon, Zürich, 15. Juni 2018.

Kinaesthetics Schweiz.
Suter-Riederer, Susanne,

2018.

Wirksamkeit mobilitätsfördernder Pflegeinterventionen bei MS und Schlaganfall und Kurzbericht über eine qualitative Studie zum subjektiven Erleben von Patienten in der Bodenpflege.

Neurologie & Rehabilitation.

24(Supplement 1), pp. 27-28.

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