Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease Using SBAR as a Communication Tool: A Pilot Study

Deborah M. Jean-Baptiste, Maureen Wassef, Susan Sullivan Bolyai and Coretta Jenerette ()
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Deborah M. Jean-Baptiste: Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, Umass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Maureen Wassef: Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, Umass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Susan Sullivan Bolyai: Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, Umass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA
Coretta Jenerette: College of Nursing, University of South Carolina, 1601 Greene Street, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-13

Abstract: Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hemoglobinopathy that causes debilitating pain. Patients often report dissatisfaction during care seeking for pain or a sickle cell crisis (SCC). The Theory of Self-Care Management for SCD conceptualizes assertive communication as a self-care management resource that improves healthcare outcomes. Objectives: This pilot study aimed to determine whether adults with SCD could learn to use the Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation (SBAR) communication method using a web-based trainer, and it aimed to determine their perceptions of the training. Methods: The participants included n = 18 adults with SCD. Inter-rater reliability (IRR) among three reviewers was used to evaluate the participants’ ability to respond as expected to prompts using SBAR communication within the web-based platform. Content analysis was used to describe the participants’ perspectives of the acceptability of using the SBAR patient–HCP communication simulation. Results: The SBAR IRR ranged from 64 to 94%, with 72% to 94% of the responses being evaluated as the using of the SBAR component as expected. The predominant themes identified were (1) Patient–Provider Communication and Interaction; (2) Patients want to be Heard and Believed; (3) Accuracy of the ED Experience and Incorporating the Uniqueness of each Patient; and (4) the Overall Usefulness of the Video Trainer emerging. Conclusions: This pilot study supported the usefulness and acceptability of a web-based intervention in training adults with SCD to use SBAR to enhance patient–HCP communication. Enhancing communication may mitigate the barriers that individuals with SCD encounter during care seeking and improve the outcomes. Additional studies with larger samples need to be conducted.

Keywords: SBAR; sickle cell crisis; communication; inter-rater reliability of qualitative data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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