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Record W4411880941 · doi:10.1177/08258597251351432

Primary Care Providers’ Perceptions of the CAPACITI Palliative Care Education Trial: A Qualitative Study of Experiences With Self-Directed and Facilitated Modalities

2025· article· en· W4411880941 on OpenAlexafffund
Shilpa Jyothi Kumar, Valerie Bishop, Daryl Bainbridge, Frances Kilbertus, Katherine Kortes-Miller, Samantha Winemaker, Hsien Seow

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Palliative Care · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Canadian institutionsLakehead UniversityNOSM UniversityMcMaster University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsModalitiesFocus groupQualitative researchPsychologyFacilitationPalliative careModality (human–computer interaction)PerceptionPreferenceQualitative propertyMedical educationNursingMedicine

Abstract

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ObjectiveCAPACITI (Community Access to PAlliative Care via Interprofessional Teams Improvement) is a virtual training program that teaches primary care providers how to incorporate an early palliative approach to care in practice. Building this capacity can help primary care providers better meet the needs of their seriously ill patients; however, there has been limited in-depth study as to the added benefits of active facilitation in on-line education. We completed a qualitative inquiry with CAPACITI participants to explore perceived differences in self-directed and facilitated e-learning to understand how these modalities contribute to change in practice.MethodsWe completed a qualitative analysis of semi-structured focus groups with primary care teams that participated in CAPACITI. This study was part of a cluster randomized controlled trial where teams were randomized to self-directed or facilitated modalities for each of the three CAPACITI modules. We followed a qualitative descriptive design, using a constant comparative approach to determine emergent themes to understand participant experience and preference in learning modality.ResultsWe conducted 63 focus groups throughout the trial, representing 42 unique teams, about a quarter of which had experienced both learning modalities at the time of the focus group. Qualitative analysis revealed three main themes: changes in thinking (ie identifying patients early in the illness trajectory), change in behavior (ie increased collaboration), and preference in learning modality and perceived benefits. Interestingly, we found no overwhelming preference in learning modality.ConclusionsSelf-directed and facilitated learning modalities were both perceived as effective in promoting changes in thinking and behavior among primary care providers across diverse care settings. Future studies should further explore the use of tailored facilitation such as simulated patient encounters and innovative coaching strategies to optimally promote behavior change in virtual palliative care education.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.760

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.081
GPT teacher head0.431
Teacher spread0.351 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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