Program Manager of the Research and Evaluation Unit at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta in Edmonton and is Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Health and Community in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, BC.
Can Fam Physician. 2020 Mar;66(3):e99-e106.
To identify recommendations from family physicians in Canada on how public health agencies and professional organizations might improve future crisis and emergency risk communications.
Qualitative content analysis.
Canada.
Sixteen family physicians who have experienced a public health crisis.
Semistructured interviews were conducted with 16 family physicians practising in various regions across Canada who had experienced what they defined as a public health crisis. These events included environmental crises, like forest fires and hurricanes, and infectious disease crises, like the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and H1N1 outbreaks. Interview transcripts were coded using an inductive qualitative content analysis method, specifically focusing on recommendations from participants on how to improve risk communication to family physicians in the event of a future public health crisis.
Based on their personal experiences, participants had many explicit recommendations on how to improve risk communication strategies in the event of a future public health crisis. These included having a single trusted source of information; having timely and succinct communication; having consideration for learners; ensuring access to information for all physicians; improving public health and family medicine collaboration; having crisis information for patients; and creating communication infrastructure before a crisis occurs.
This research provides thoughtful and varied considerations and advice from practising family physicians on how to improve risk communication from public health agencies and professional organizations to this group in the event of a public health crisis. With improved communications between these bodies and family physicians, practitioners will be better informed and prepared to provide the best possible care to their patient populations during such events.
确定加拿大家庭医生对公共卫生机构和专业组织如何改进未来危机和紧急风险沟通的建议。
定性内容分析。
加拿大。
16 名有公共卫生危机经验的家庭医生。
对 16 名在加拿大不同地区执业的家庭医生进行了半结构化访谈，他们经历了自己定义的公共卫生危机。这些事件包括环境危机，如森林火灾和飓风，以及传染病危机，如 SARS（严重急性呼吸综合征）和 H1N1 爆发。访谈记录采用归纳式定性内容分析方法进行编码，特别关注参与者关于如何改进未来公共卫生危机中向家庭医生进行风险沟通的建议。
根据他们的个人经验，参与者就如何改进未来公共卫生危机中的风险沟通策略提出了许多明确的建议。这些建议包括：有一个单一的可信信息来源；进行及时和简洁的沟通；考虑学习者；确保所有医生都能获得信息；促进公共卫生和家庭医学的合作；为患者提供危机信息；以及在危机发生前建立沟通基础设施。
这项研究从实践家庭医生的角度提供了深思熟虑和多样化的考虑和建议，以改善公共卫生机构和专业组织在发生公共卫生危机时向这一群体传达风险的方式。通过这些机构和家庭医生之间更好的沟通，从业者将更好地了解情况，并在发生此类事件时为其患者群体提供尽可能好的护理。
