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Developing a theory-based behavior change intervention to improve the prescription of surgical prophylaxis
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posted on 2023-06-10, 02:34 authored by Anna Leena Lohiniva, Iman Heweidy, Samiha Abdu, Omar Abouelata, Caroline AckleyCaroline Ackley, Shady Samir, Maha TalaatAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasingly pervasive due to multiple, complex prescribing and consuming behaviours. Accordingly, behaviour change is an important component of response to AMR. Little is known about the best approaches to change antibiotic use practices and behaviours. This project aims to develop a context-specific behaviour change strategy focusing on promoting appropriate prescription practices following the World Health Organization recommendations for surgical prophylaxis. In an orthopaedic surgery unit in Egypt. The project included a formative qualitative research study with 31 in-depth interviews with orthopaedic surgeons that was based on the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and an intervention that was developed to following the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) in a knowledge co-production workshop with ten public health experts that ensured that the theory based intervention was a culturally acceptable, practical and implementable intervention. The prescription of surgical prophylaxis was influenced by eight TDF domains from which workshop participants selected five to be included in the behaviour change intervention including, knowledge, belief in consequences (mistrust towards infection prevention and control measures), environmental factors (lack of prescription guidelines), professional role and reinforcement (a lack of appropriate follow up actions influenced prescription of surgical prophylaxis). The appropriate set of behaviour change functions of BCW and related activities to improve the current practices included education, enablement, persuasion, environmental restructuring and restriction. The study showed that a theory based, and context specific intervention can be created by using the TDF and BCW together with knowledge-co creation to improve the prescription of surgical prophylaxis in and Egyptian orthopaedic unit. The intervention needs to piloted and scaled up.
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International Journal of Clinical PharmacyISSN
2210-7703Publisher
SpringerExternal DOI
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44Page range
227-234Event location
NetherlandsDepartment affiliated with
- Global Health and Infection Publications
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2022-02-09First Open Access (FOA) Date
2022-02-09First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2022-02-08Usage metrics
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