"As a practitioner I feel enriched": rheumatology tutors' experiences of delivering a manualised group cognitive-behavioural fatigue programme to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Dures, Emma; Hammond, Alison; Hewlett, Sarah; Group, RAFT

Abstract

Background Reducing Arthritis Fatigue by clinical Teams using cognitive-behavioural approaches (RAFT) is a 7-centre RCT of a manualised group cognitive-behavioural (CB) programme to reduce fatigue impact.1 After four days training plus a delivery observed by clinical supervisors, tutor pairs (rheumatology nurses and occupational therapists (OTs)) delivered the programme four times to patients with RA. Quality assurance observations confirmed tutors used CB approaches and RAFT results show the programme reduced patients’ fatigue impact at 26 weeks.2

Objectives The aim of the current study was to understand tutors’ experiences of RAFT training and delivery to inform future programme roll out.

Methods 14 RAFT tutors (9 nurses; 5 OTs) participated in one-to-one interviews, which were audio-recorded and transcribed. Data were analysed by ED, SH, and AH using inductive thematic analysis.

Results Four main themes were identified.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Abstract
• Publication Date: Jun 14, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 30, 2023
• Journal: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
• Print ISSN: 0003-4967
• Electronic ISSN: 1468-2060
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 77
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/ANNRHEUMDIS-2018-EULAR.1126