Communication is an essential component of a person’s everyday life. Today, every person is in a situation where communication is necessary to achieve their goals. Along with this, a large part of people for whom it difficult not for practical reasons but because of their physical health. Such people are tracheostomised patients who are forced to have difficult communication due to their illness. People often try to help such patients and improve their lives through communication. This study will examine how effective communication devices are and whether they help tracheostomised patients.
A tracheostomised patient is a person who has problems with breathing or swallowing. For this, special tubes are used to protect the person from major complications and to give the person access to lung ventilation (O’Connor, Morris, and Paratz, 2019). Such patients experience many adverse effects after tube insertion, as much of their other physical function is impaired. Some patients may partially lose hearing and the ability to speak, and their communication with the world deteriorates significantly and often leads to many psychological problems in tracheostomized patients (Freeman-Sanderson, Togher, Elkins, and Kenny, 2018). Thus, the study of the effectiveness of communication methods for such people is necessary for medicine.
A vital part of the research is the need to understand how effective the proposed methods of communication are for patients. It is worth looking at what can be improved in all these things (McGrath, Brenner, Warrillow, Pandian, Arora, Cameron, and Feller-Kopman, 2020). There is a need to understand how to improve such people’s lives and make them feel part of society, not outside it.
To best investigate this question, it is worth using mixed methods. First of all, it is worth developing the design of a descriptive study where that would use all the advice on solving the urgent needs of patients. In addition, an important research method is conducting a survey, which should also show what should be changed and improved (McGrath et al., 2020). The quantitative way is vital in communication research (Freeman-Sanderson et al., 2018). This method will allow qualitative assessment of the survey results and correctly conclude to improve the condition of patients. It will be worth taking a sample of several patients, and if the study is successful, it will allow such a study sample to be used in the future for a broader context. This method is the best for this study because it will enable different applied ways. At the same time, it will allow to conduct qualitative research and arrive at significant results.
Analysis of available research methods and literature will allow obtaining a comprehensive result. If successful, it will be possible to hypothesize and explore ways to solve communication problems (Freeman-Sanderson et al., 2018). Considering that the majority of patients have such issues, the research will have a significant effect on improving the condition of patients (McGrath et al., 2020). A qualitative study must use several patients and support such studies with the work of other researchers.
The ethical issue is also essential to this research because the patients are seriously ill. Conducting such research requires considerable effort to obtain results. Thus, it will be worthwhile to draw up particular questionnaires that will be able to familiarize patients with this study and get their permission for the use of their data. In addition, patients have the opportunity to understand what the research is for and the consequences; that is, patients should be aware of what they will do and how it may affect them. In this way, society and health care organizations can see that tracheostomised patients have given their consent. In this way, it will give more importance to the research. Ethnic considerations are essential to any investigation, so their observance reinforces that all this is done only for positive reasons and the desire to help such people.
Dissemination of submitted research is a complicated process requiring a lot of resources. It needs to understand that this study has a specific audience, and not everyone will be able to understand the essence of this work (Cooke et al., 2017). However, it is worth considering the dissemination of the results of such a study among medical professionals, especially those who work with tracheostomized patients (Cooke, Gallagher, Sopinka, Nguyen, Skubel, Hammerschlag, and Danylchuk, 2017). For such workers, such research will be essential and valuable. They can do this through mailing or sharing on social networks. It is also worth saying that you can send messages to your messengers so that other people can spread your work.
You can also go above and try to publish your work in various scientific journals. For this, it will be worth doing a long job and sending your work to many editors (Cooke et al., 2017). Of course, you can also try to spread it among patients sick with this disease (Cooke et al., 2017) since they are also the target audience and will be able to improve their lives with the help of such research. It is worth trying different methods and spreading the ideas of this research.
Reference List
McGrath, B. A., Brenner, M. J., Warrillow, S. J., Pandian, V., Arora, A., Cameron, T. S., and Feller-Kopman, D. J. (2020). Tracheostomy in the COVID-19 era: global and multidisciplinary guidance. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 8(7), pp. 717-725. Web.
Freeman-Sanderson, A. L., Togher, L., Elkins, M., and Kenny, B. (2018). Quality of life improves for tracheostomy patients with return of voice: a mixed methods evaluation of the patient experience across the care continuum. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 46, pp. 10-16. Web.
O’Connor, L. R., Morris, N. R., and Paratz, J. (2019). Physiological and clinical outcomes associated with use of one-way speaking valves on tracheostomised patients: A systematic review. Heart & Lung, 48(4), pp. 356-364. Web.
Cooke, S. J., Gallagher, A. J., Sopinka, N. M., Nguyen, V. M., Skubel, R. A., Hammerschlag, N., and Danylchuk, A. J. (2017). Considerations for effective science communication. Facets, 2(1), pp. 233-248. Web.