What is the Perceived Role of Risk in DOC Healthcare.
ConditionDisorders of Consciousness
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot listed
Trial typeObservational
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorUniversity of Nottingham
About this trial
Critical ethnography exploring how decisions are made on behalf of people in disorder of consciousness (DOC).
Prospective longitudinal case study design including observation, field interview and video reflexive ethnography.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Working diagnosis of being in a DOC.
Have an appropriate family member able to act as a consultee.
Over 18 years of age.
conversational English.
Disqualifiers
Not in a DOC, diagnosis uncertain, or appears to be emerging.
Clinically unstable or approaching the end of their life.
Trial population
people in a doc
Trial design
Design model
Case-only
Time perspective
Prospective
Treatments tested in this trial
Observation
Other interventioncase study will be observed participants, methods will include observation, interview and video reflexive ethnography
Treatment groups
No treatment groups listed
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Meaning based themes on what influences decision making in DOC
Thematic analysis (TA) will consolidate and develop themes across all data sources (i.e., interview and VRE transcripts, field notes). The planned TA approach will borrow theory from reflexive thematic analysis (Braun \& Clarke, 2022) and a critical realist TA approach which supports causal explanation development (Fryer, 2022). Causal research questions will be developed and refined throughout data collection and explored through TA.
Time frame
2 yearsSponsors and contacts
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University of Nottingham
Lead sponsor
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov