Integrative Wellness Sessions In A Pediatric Hospital Setting: A Feasibility Study to Assess Evaluation of the Hospital Heroes Program at Banner's Diamond Children's Hospital
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description: BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies can be effective in treating certain chronic, recurrent, and incurable conditions. Use of CAM in pediatric populations is increasing considerably and uptake is especially evident among hospitalized children. Further, burnout among healthcare providers is increasing, affecting both their wellbeing and patient outcomes. At Banner Children's Diamond Children's Hospital, patients, families, and staff can receive CAM through the Integrative Touch for Kids™ (ITK) Hospital Heroes (HH) program. SIGNIFICANCE: Further study to evaluate HH is vital to understanding the quality of care delivered and recommendations for improvement. OBJECTIVES: Assess feasibility of evaluation of HH by Aim 1: Describing the vision and programmatic structure of the HH program. Aim 2: Achieving therapist consensus on referral, care coordination, and debriefing processes; Aim 3: Evaluating session impact on pain, fear/distress/anxiety, global/overall well-being, and satisfaction. Describe retrospective case studies to highlight valuable outcomes otherwise not represented. FRAMEWORKS & METHODS: The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, elements from the Ethnographic Assessment of Evaluation Systems, and elements from Donabedian's Quality Framework were used to create a novel, theory-based, whole practice, program evaluation framework to evaluate HH via the following aims. Aim 1: Structure- Key- informant ethnographic interviews with ITK management (N=2) and self-completed questionnaires by HH therapists (N=4) were used to describe the program vision and structural elements. Interviews were transcribed and all data was de-identified, described, and summarized. Transcripts were converted into culturally-appropriate word clouds validated by participants. Univariate and descriptive statistics were used to assess questionnaire items related to human resources and qual…
abstract: BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies can be effective in treating certain chronic, recurrent, and incurable conditions. Use of CAM in pediatric populations is increasing considerably and uptake is especially evident among hospitalized children. Further, burnout among healthcare providers is increasing, affecting both their wellbeing and patient outcomes. At Banner Children's Diamond Children's Hospital, patients, families, and staff can receive CAM through the Integrative Touch for Kids™ (ITK) Hospital Heroes (HH) program. SIGNIFICANCE: Further study to evaluate HH is vital to understanding the quality of care delivered and recommendations for improvement. OBJECTIVES: Assess feasibility of evaluation of HH by Aim 1: Describing the vision and programmatic structure of the HH program. Aim 2: Achieving therapist consensus on referral, care coordination, and debriefing processes; Aim 3: Evaluating session impact on pain, fear/distress/anxiety, global/overall well-being, and satisfaction. Describe retrospective case studies to highlight valuable outcomes otherwise not represented. FRAMEWORKS & METHODS: The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, elements from the Ethnographic Assessment of Evaluation Systems, and elements from Donabedian's Quality Framework were used to create a novel, theory-based, whole practice, program evaluation framework to evaluate HH via the following aims. Aim 1: Structure- Key- informant ethnographic interviews with ITK management (N=2) and self-completed questionnaires by HH therapists (N=4) were used to describe the program vision and structural elements. Interviews were transcribed and all data was de-identified, described, and summarized. Transcripts were converted into culturally-appropriate word clouds validated by participants. Univariate and descriptive statistics were used to assess questionnaire items related to human resources and qual…
author: Pottinger, Heidi Lee
language: en_US
keywords: hospital, integrative medicine, pediatric, program evaluation, wellness, whole practice
date published: 2017
date modified: 2026-07-24T00:55:23Z
provider: University of Arizona
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: The University of Arizona.

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