'More like a partnership': A qualitative evaluation of Communication Coaching for Sonographers (CCS) in obstetric ultrasound.

IF 0.8 Q4 RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING Ultrasound Pub Date : 2024-09-25 DOI:10.1177/1742271X241277127
Essie Kaur, Jane Arezina, Louise Bryant, Kathryn Pollak, Rebecca Wallace, Gill Harrison, Ruth Bender Atik, Roxanne Sicklen, Jen Coates, Natasha Hardicre, Teresa Lardner, Karen Horwood, Hannah Beety, Jon Arnold, Judith Johnson
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Introduction: Sonographers are required to deliver unexpected news to expectant parents in real time during obstetric ultrasound scans. The complexity of these interactions requires sonographers to conduct the clinical task while communicating their findings and managing the expectant parent's response within the designated appointment time. Communication coaching for sonographers (CCS) is a tailored intervention that has previously been associated with improvements in confidence and news delivery practice. The current study explored the views and experiences of sonographers who completed CCS to evaluate and inform future delivery of this intervention.

Methods: Nine sonographers participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews after completing CCS. We analysed data using a Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) approach.

Results: Participants reported CCS to be valuable and informative. The key themes identified included (1) innovating the path: tailored and novel training for sonographers, (2) humanising care: honouring the self, service-users and relevant others in the delivery of compassion-focused care and (3) making space: considerations for successfully delivering coaching. Participants said the coaching provided practical suggestions and was experienced as a 'safe space' for reflective practice that helped to enhance their capacity to identify and respond to emotion in others. There were practical challenges to taking part in CCS and organisational factors could act as a barrier; managerial championing of the intervention was crucial to uptake and completion.

Conclusions: Participants viewed CCS positively. To implement CCS, there needs to be organisational coordination. Further controlled studies will be needed to establish the effectiveness of CCS.

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更像一种伙伴关系":对产科超声波检查中的超声波检查员沟通辅导(CCS)进行定性评估。
介绍:超声技师需要在产科超声扫描过程中实时向孕妇父母传达意外消息。这些互动的复杂性要求超声技师在完成临床任务的同时,在指定的预约时间内传达他们的检查结果并处理准父母的反应。超声技师沟通指导(CCS)是一种量身定制的干预措施,以前曾被用于提高超声技师的信心和新闻发布实践。本研究探讨了完成 CCS 的超声技师的观点和经验,以评估和指导今后的干预措施:九名超声技师在完成 CCS 后参加了半结构化定性访谈。我们采用反思性主题分析法(RTA)对数据进行了分析:结果:参与者认为 CCS 很有价值,信息量很大。确定的关键主题包括:(1) 创新之路:为超声技师提供量身定制的新颖培训;(2) 人性化护理:在提供以同情为重点的护理时尊重自我、服务使用者和相关人员;(3) 腾出空间:成功提供辅导的注意事项。学员们表示,辅导提供了实用的建议,是反思实践的 "安全空间",有助于提高他们识别和应对他人情绪的能力。参加社区支持服务存在实际挑战,组织因素也可能成为障碍;管理者对干预措施的支持对接受和完成干预至关重要:参与者对社区支持服务持积极态度。要实施社区支持服务,需要组织协调。需要进一步开展对照研究,以确定综合传播战略的有效性。
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Ultrasound
Ultrasound RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING-
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期刊介绍: Ultrasound is the official journal of the British Medical Ultrasound Society (BMUS), a multidisciplinary, charitable society comprising radiologists, obstetricians, sonographers, physicists and veterinarians amongst others.
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