Background
Methods
Ethical considerations
Sampling and recruitment
Data collection
1. | Identifying core competencies - What a GP needs to know and do to deliver good dementia care |
2. | Identifying challenges and solutions - The barriers and facilitators of dementia care |
3. | Perceived educational need - What GPs feel they need to learn more about |
4. | Delivering the education - The most appropriate strategies for receiving education and training |
1. | Reflection on experience – How the GP was involved at diagnosis and as dementia progressed. |
2. | Identifying core competencies – The aspects of GP care which were helpful |
3. | Identifying challenges and solutions – The aspects of GP care which did not work well and how this might be overcome |
4. | Perceived educational need – The aspects of dementia care on which GPs should receive further training |
Data analysis
Results
Characteristics of interviewees
Gender | Participants, % (n) |
---|---|
Male | 64% (9) |
Female | 36% (5) |
Time Qualified | |
< 10 years | 14% (2) |
11–20 years | 43% (6) |
> 20 years | 43% (6) |
Practice Location | |
Rural | 14% (2) |
Urban | 21% (3) |
Mixed | 64% (9) |
Type of Practice | |
Small (1–2 GPs) | 36% (5) |
Large (3 or more GPs) | 64% (9) |
Gender | Participants, % (n) |
---|---|
Female | 75% (9) |
Male | 25% (3) |
Relationship with PwD | |
Wife | 25% (3) |
Husband | 17% (2) |
Daughter | 50% (6) |
Son | 8% (1) |
Living/Lived with PwD | |
Yes | 75% (9) |
No | 25% (3) |
Gender | Participants, % (n) |
---|---|
Female | 60% (3) |
Male | 40% (2) |
Age Range | |
< 65 years | 60% (3) |
> 65 years | 40% (2) |
Complexity of dementia care
‘They come in and we check their blood pressure, we tell them that blood pressure’s up…and we check their pulse and we diagnose atrial fibrillation and we’re doing CHAD-Vascing, and we’re in our comfort zone. But we’re certainly not in our comfort zone with this’ (GP5)
…because GPs are obviously the front line in most situations (PwD 3)
‘In many ways in was heart-breaking the way it happened in that the GP who was concerned in the case at the time, wasn’t sufficiently well up on the condition of dementia’ (FC1)