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. 2022 Mar;48(1):60-68.
doi: 10.1111/jorc.12379. Epub 2021 May 30.

Intervening on health literacy by knowledge translation processes in kidney transplantation: A feasibility study

Marit H Andersen  1   2 , Kristin H Urstad  3 , Marie H Larsen  4   5 , Gina Fraas Henrichsen  2 , Eivind Engebretsen  2 , John Ødemark  6 , Aud-Eldrid Stenehjem  7 , Anna V Reisaeter  1   8 , Arve Nordlie  9 , Astrid K Wahl  1   2
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Intervening on health literacy by knowledge translation processes in kidney transplantation: A feasibility study

Marit H Andersen et al. J Ren Care. 2022 Mar.

Abstract

Background: Patients awaiting kidney transplantation need to be prepared ahead of the upcoming transplantation by developing targeted pre- and post-transplant knowledge. On this background, we designed a new health literacy intervention, including a film and a counselling session, based on motivational interviewing for dialysis patients provided by dialysis nurses.

Aim: To explore patients' and nurses' experiences of the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention, focusing on the patient as a prepared knowledge actor.

Design: An explorative qualitative study.

Participants and methods: Data included in-depth interviews with nine patients and three nurses who participated in the intervention. The interviews were audiotaped and analysed following Kvale and Brinkmann's method for thematic data analysis.

Findings: Three main themes were identified: a different kind of health intervention stimulating new insight; a challenging kind of health conversation and changed relationships and increased security.

Conclusions: Both the patients and the nurses had an overall positive attitude toward the intervention, providing a kind of dialogue to prepare dialysis patients going through kidney transplantation. The nurses found the MI methodology to be challenging. When introducing a comprehensive communication method like MI, potential training and supervision needs for the nurses must be addressed.

Keywords: MI; health literacy intervention; patients awaiting kidney transplantation.

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