Room for Improvement: Patient, Parent, and Practitioners' Perceptions of Foot Problems and Foot Care in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

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• 作者：Gordon J. Hendry ; PhD^a ; ^b ; ^{gordon.hendry@uws.edu.au" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Debbie E. Turner ; PhD^a ; Paula K. Lorgelly ; PhD^c ; James Woodburn ; PhD^a
• 关键词：Arthritis ; juvenile rheumatoid ; Foot ; Qualitative research ; podiatry ; Rehabilitation
• 刊名：Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：November 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：93
• 期：11
• 页码：2062-2067
• 全文大小：201 K

文摘

Hendry GJ, Turner DE, Lorgelly PK, Woodburn J. Room for improvement: patient, parent, and practitioners' perceptions of foot problems and foot care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Objective

To explore the perceived impact of disease-related foot problems and foot care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) from the perspectives of patients, parents, pediatric rheumatologists, and health professionals.

Design

A qualitative study using an interpretative phenomenological approach.

Setting

Outpatients department, public health service children's hospital.

Participants

Patients (N=15; 4 adult patients, 2 parents of children with JIA, 3 pediatric rheumatologists, and 6 health professionals) from 2 National Health Service rheumatology centers (1 pediatric and 1 adult).

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main Outcome Measures

Qualitative outcomes were participants' perceptions elicited using semistructured interviews (telephone or face-to-face) and focus groups using an interpretative phenomenological approach. A data-driven inductive approach to coding and theme development was adopted for transcript analysis.

Results

Participants volunteered to take part in a total of 7 interviews and 2 focus groups. The analysis revealed 6 key themes related to the impact of foot problems and perceptions of foot care from respective groups. These were the following: (1) pain, (2) mobility impairment, (3) reduced ability to perform activities of daily living, (4) footwear difficulties, (5) poor referral pathways/delayed access to care, and (6) lack of evidence in support of conservative foot care.

Conclusions

Several areas for development of foot care services were identified including a need for improved referral pathways, shorter waiting times for initial consultations, greater attention to patient compliance, and a need for better evidence in support of customized foot orthoses. Several key foot health-related outcomes were identified, which may be of importance for measuring therapeutic response to foot-related interventions.