Healthcare professionals in research (HPiR) Facebook community: a survey of U.K. doctoral and postdoctoral healthcare professionals outside of medicine

Autor: G. Clunie, JA Deane
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Health Personnel
media_common.quotation_subject
1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy
education
Social Sciences
Nurses
Qualitative property
Peer support
1117 Public Health and Health Services
Midwives
Education
Nonprobability sampling
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pregnancy
Physicians
Surveys and Questionnaires
Health care
Humans
Confidentiality
Allied Health Professionals
030212 general & internal medicine
NMAHP
Education
Scientific Disciplines
media_common
Medical education
LC8-6691
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
Research
General Medicine
Moderation
Education & Educational Research
Special aspects of education
Negotiation
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Clinical Academic careers
Medicine
Female
Psychology
business
Delivery of Health Care
Social Media
Medical Informatics
Zdroj: BMC Medical Education, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
BMC Medical Education
Deane, J A & Clunie, G 2021, ' Healthcare professionals in research (HPiR) Facebook community: a survey of U.K. doctoral and postdoctoral healthcare professionals outside of medicine ', BMC Medical Education, vol. 21, no. 1, 236 . https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-021-02672-1
ISSN: 1472-6920
Popis: Background Healthcare professionals outside of medicine (HCPs), including nurses, midwives and allied health professionals, are increasingly involved in research for patient benefit. Their challenge is to negotiate inter-professional or professionally isolated contexts. The aims of this study were to evaluate the ‘Healthcare Professionals in Research’ (HPiR) Facebook group (a self-directed and confidential peer support group for doctoral and postdoctoral HCPs) including engagement, the experiences of doctoral and postdoctoral HPiR members and to identify future career challenges using an on-line survey. Methods The HPiR Facebook group was launched in May 2019. Five HCP Community managers (CMs) were trained in on-line platform curation, moderation and screening. An on-line survey was designed to capture data from HPiR members. A purposive sampling approach was applied. Respondents were required to be doctoral and postdoctoral HCPs and a registered member of the HPiR group. Respondents represented a range of healthcare professions, 79 % of whom had over ten years clinical experience. Membership growth and engagement was analysed. Descriptive statistics were used to present numerical data. Qualitative data were analysed thematically. Results 96 members were admitted to the group within the first month. All members were actively engaged with group content. 34/96 doctoral and postdoctoral HCPs completed the survey. Most members joined for networking (88 %) and peer support (82 %) purposes. Analysis of text responses showed difficulties in balancing a clinical academic career and highlighted the consequences of undefined clinical academic roles and pathways. Conclusions Doctoral and postdoctoral HCPs value the opportunities that HPiR provides for peer support and connection with fellow HCPs. HPiR has the potential to strengthen research capacity, support research skill development and drive change within the clinical academic community. Clinical academic roles and pathways need to be standardised. The creation of opportunities beyond doctoral studies is a priority.
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