TY - JOUR
T1 - Qualitative Study of Paediatric Advance Care Planning Through Simulation
T2 - How we did it and the Lessons Learned
AU - Vemuri, Sidharth
AU - Heywood, Melissa
AU - O’Neill, Jenny
AU - Hynson, Jenny
AU - Williams, Katrina
AU - Gillam, Lynn
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the generous support of Ms Mirna Boujaoude and Dr Jenni Sokol from the Royal Children’s Hospital Simulation Centre, and Ms Andrea Wallace and Dr Ram Nataraja from the Monash Children’s Hospital Simulation Centre. We would also acknowledge the support of Dr Giuliana Antolovich for her assistance in scenario development and pilot testing, Dr Thomas Rozen for his assistance in scenario development, Dr Alyssia Haling for her assistance in pilot testing, and Dr Lucinda Carr and Dr Thomas Brick for their assistance in assessing face validity of the scenarios. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by the Melbourne Disability Institute at The University of Melbourne and the Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation (BGRF2007). In addition to this, we disclose that S.V. is supported by the Australian Government Research Training program, provided by the Australian Commonwealth Government and The University of Melbourne.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was funded by the Melbourne Disability Institute at The University of Melbourne and the Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation (BGRF2007). In addition to this, we disclose that S.V. is supported by the Australian Government Research Training program, provided by the Australian Commonwealth Government and The University of Melbourne.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Simulation is a well-established experiential educational tool in health care, which allows clinicians to learn and practise skills via a replication of reality. However, its use as a research tool is novel and emerging. As we designed a phenomenological study of communication practices around paediatric advance care planning, we came to the view that simulation would be a very useful tool to enable feasible and ethical qualitative study of this complex and sensitive process, which involves discussion about a child’s death in the future and how to prepare for it. There is minimal description in the literature about how to use simulation as a qualitative research method. This article describes how we designed our study, focusing on: (1) the academic rationale for using simulation, (2) designing the simulation-based research method, (3) ensuring psychological safety of all participants in the simulation, (4) trialling the simulation, (5) the logistics of the study and (6) our reflections and learnings after using this novel method. We hope this discussion encourages other researchers to consider simulation as an innovative qualitative research method.
AB - Simulation is a well-established experiential educational tool in health care, which allows clinicians to learn and practise skills via a replication of reality. However, its use as a research tool is novel and emerging. As we designed a phenomenological study of communication practices around paediatric advance care planning, we came to the view that simulation would be a very useful tool to enable feasible and ethical qualitative study of this complex and sensitive process, which involves discussion about a child’s death in the future and how to prepare for it. There is minimal description in the literature about how to use simulation as a qualitative research method. This article describes how we designed our study, focusing on: (1) the academic rationale for using simulation, (2) designing the simulation-based research method, (3) ensuring psychological safety of all participants in the simulation, (4) trialling the simulation, (5) the logistics of the study and (6) our reflections and learnings after using this novel method. We hope this discussion encourages other researchers to consider simulation as an innovative qualitative research method.
KW - advance care planning
KW - clinical simulation
KW - paediatric palliative care
KW - qualitative research design
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85167417695
U2 - 10.1177/16094069231193262
DO - 10.1177/16094069231193262
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85167417695
SN - 1609-4069
VL - 22
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - International Journal of Qualitative Methods
JF - International Journal of Qualitative Methods
ER -