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Resistance or appropriation?: uptake of exercise after a nurse led intervention to promote self-management for osteoarthritis

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The philosophical underpinning of trials of complex interventions are critiqued for not taking into account causal mechanisms that influence potential outcomes. In this paper we draw from in-depth interviews (with practice nurses and patients) and observations of practice meetings and consultations to investigate the outcomes of a complex intervention to promote self-management (in particular exercise) for osteoarthritis in Primary Care settings. We argue that Nurses interpreted the intervention as underpinned by the need to educate rather than work with patients, and, drawing from Habermasian theory, we argue that expert medicalised knowledge (system) clashed with lay ‘lifeworld’ prerogatives in an uneven communicative arena (the consultation). In turn the advice and instructions given to patients was not always commensurate with their ‘lifeworld’. Consequently patients struggled to embed exercise routines into their daily lives for reasons of unsuitable locality, sense making that ‘home’ was an inappropriate places to exercise, and using embodied knowledge to test the efficacy of exercise on pain. We conclude by arguing that using Habermasian theory helped to understand reasons why the trial failed to increase exercise levels. Our findings suggest that communication styles influence the outcomes of self-management interventions, reinforce the utility of theoretically informed qualitative research embedded within trials to improve conduct and outcomes, and indicate incorporating perspectives from human geography can enhance Habermas informed research and theorising.

Acceptance Date Mar 20, 2020
Publication Date Jun 2, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Health
Print ISSN 1949-4998
Publisher Scientific Research Publishing
Keywords Osteoarthritis, complex interventions, qualitative methods, Habermas, process evaluation, public health
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1363459320925879

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