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Using the Japanese KJ Ho Method as a Qualitative Creative Problem Solving Technique to Address Clinicians’ and Young Kidney Transplant Patients’ Needs Concerning Treatment

Bul, Kim 1 ; Krishnan, Nithya 2,3 ; Griggs, Deborah 4 ; McCarthy, Kate 2 ; Whiteman, Becky 1 ; Szczepura, Ala 5 ; Numora, Toshio 6

1 Centre for Innovative Research across the Life Course, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom;

2 Renal Department, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom;

3 Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom;

4 Research & Development, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, United Kingdom;

5 Enterprise & Innovation Group, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom;

6 Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan.

Introduction 

Treatment adherence in kidney transplant patients is particularly challenging during adolescence and young adulthood. This produces adverse consequences such as higher transplant failure, decreased quality of life and increased mortality. A novel qualitative creative problem-solving method (KJ Ho), widely used in Japan, has been applied in the United Kingdom (UK) to disentangle clinicians’ and young kidney transplant patients’ perspectives on this problem area. The study forms the first stage in the development of a user-driven digital intervention to improve long-term treatment adherence. KJ-Ho has contributed widely to clinical practice and knowledge in multiple contexts in Japan; our first application of this method in the UK should similarly contribute to improving post-transplant practice and knowledge.

Materials and Methods 

KJ Ho is a Japanese creative problem solving method to organize qualitative research data. Clinicians were invited to take part in a two hour creative workshop. Data were analysed in a step-wise approach from which several overarching themes emerged. Similar workshops for patients (aged from 13 – 30 years) and their family members are being conducted. KJ Ho findings will be synthesized with two systematic literature reviews being undertaken in parallel.

Results and Discussion 

Six overarching themes were identified during the clinicians’ workshop: (1) non-adherence; (2) communication; (3) continuity in care; (4) values; (5) family; (6) patient-centred. Similar data concerning young kidney transplant patients’ needs is currently being collected and analysed. Triangulation of the KJ Ho data with standard systematic review outputs will provide a robust evidence base for intervention development.

Conclusion 

Integration of this original KJ Ho problem-solving method with standard Western systematic literature review methods can better identify factors currently influencing treatment adherence. This co-creation phase will be followed by a co-design stage to produce a digital intervention able to improve treatment adherence among young kidney transplant patients, which will be tested in a future large-scale trial.

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N2 - Introduction Treatment adherence in kidney transplant patients is particularly challenging during adolescence and young adulthood. This produces adverse consequences such as higher transplant failure, decreased quality of life and increased mortality. A novel qualitative creative problem-solving method (KJ Ho), widely used in Japan, has been applied in the United Kingdom (UK) to disentangle clinicians’ and young kidney transplant patients’ perspectives on this problem area. The study forms the first stage in the development of a user-driven digital intervention to improve long-term treatment adherence. KJ-Ho has contributed widely to clinical practice and knowledge in multiple contexts in Japan; our first application of this method in the UK should similarly contribute to improving post-transplant practice and knowledge. Methods KJ Ho is a Japanese creative problem solving method to organize qualitative research data. Clinicians were invited to take part in a two hour creative workshop. Data were analysed in a step-wise approach from which several overarching themes emerged. Similar workshops for patients (aged from 13 – 30 years) and their family members are being conducted. KJ Ho findings will be synthesized with two systematic literature reviews being undertaken in parallel.Results Six overarching themes were identified during the clinicians’ workshop: (1) non-adherence; (2) communication; (3) continuity in care; (4) values; (5) family; (6) patient-centred. Similar data concerning young kidney transplant patients’ needs is currently being collected and analysed. Triangulation of the KJ Ho data with standard systematic review outputs will provide a robust evidence base for intervention development.DiscussionIntegration of this original KJ Ho problem-solving method with standard Western systematic literature review methods can better identify factors currently influencing treatment adherence. This co-creation phase will be followed by a co-design stage to produce a digital intervention able to improve treatment adherence among young kidney transplant patients, which will be tested in a future large-scale trial.

AB - Introduction Treatment adherence in kidney transplant patients is particularly challenging during adolescence and young adulthood. This produces adverse consequences such as higher transplant failure, decreased quality of life and increased mortality. A novel qualitative creative problem-solving method (KJ Ho), widely used in Japan, has been applied in the United Kingdom (UK) to disentangle clinicians’ and young kidney transplant patients’ perspectives on this problem area. The study forms the first stage in the development of a user-driven digital intervention to improve long-term treatment adherence. KJ-Ho has contributed widely to clinical practice and knowledge in multiple contexts in Japan; our first application of this method in the UK should similarly contribute to improving post-transplant practice and knowledge. Methods KJ Ho is a Japanese creative problem solving method to organize qualitative research data. Clinicians were invited to take part in a two hour creative workshop. Data were analysed in a step-wise approach from which several overarching themes emerged. Similar workshops for patients (aged from 13 – 30 years) and their family members are being conducted. KJ Ho findings will be synthesized with two systematic literature reviews being undertaken in parallel.Results Six overarching themes were identified during the clinicians’ workshop: (1) non-adherence; (2) communication; (3) continuity in care; (4) values; (5) family; (6) patient-centred. Similar data concerning young kidney transplant patients’ needs is currently being collected and analysed. Triangulation of the KJ Ho data with standard systematic review outputs will provide a robust evidence base for intervention development.DiscussionIntegration of this original KJ Ho problem-solving method with standard Western systematic literature review methods can better identify factors currently influencing treatment adherence. This co-creation phase will be followed by a co-design stage to produce a digital intervention able to improve treatment adherence among young kidney transplant patients, which will be tested in a future large-scale trial.

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We present, first of all, a broader perspective on the essence of problem solving and decision-making in complex real-world environments. Then, we address a special role of decision support, and decision support systems, as those solutions are generally considered the most promising for solving all kinds of nontrivial problems in our context. Finally, we analyze a vital need for tools and techniques that could involve elements of creativity in problem solving and decision-making, and systems for the support of them. We advocate a need for grasping creativity from many points of view, starting from its role to solve problems in the even more complex present world, and its role as the only means that can yield an added value and hence help attain innovativeness and competitiveness. After those general remarks we present a critical overview of the papers in this volume, peer reviewed and carefully selected, subdivided into six topical parts, and remarks on the scope and an outline of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS’2013) held in Krakόw and Wieliczka, Poland, in November 2013, in the context of the historical development of this conference series and an increased interest of a large community of researchers and scholars, but also practitioners that have been decisive for the development of this conference series. The contents and main contributions of accepted papers are briefly outlined in the order as they appear in this volume. Some general remarks and acknowledgements are also included.

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Sincere thanks are due to the members of the KICSS’2013 local Organizing Committee, the editorial staff, in particular to Ms. Alicja Madura, Dr. Witold Majdak, Ms. Inez Badecka, to the Program Committee members and external reviewers, and to all those who helped with editing this volume. Special thanks and appreciation are also due to Prof. Susumu Kunifuji, the Vice President of JAIST, and the initiator of the KICSS Conference Series. The financial support of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, under Grant no. 594/P-DUNdem/2013, as well as the contribution from the Mayor of the Wieliczka Municipality are greatly appreciated. Finally, we would like to express our thanks to all the invited speakers, contributing authors and participants of KICSS’2013 who have played a key role to attain the success and the scientific quality of this Conference.

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