Cure8 research brief
Integrated joint appointments could make it easier for children with IBD and their families to get coordinated care for symptoms, nutrition, and mental health in a single visit, which may improve access and reduce stigma around psychological support.
Pediatric IBD clinicians and service planners, dietitians and paediatric nurses working with IBD, psychologists involved in paediatric long-term conditions, and parents/caregivers of children with IBD.
The authors outline a transdisciplinary model of care for children and adolescents with IBD, built around joint appointments that combine nursing, dietetic and psychological expertise.
They report potential benefits observed through reflective practice, including more holistic symptom management, easier access to specialist input, reduced stigma for psychological support, and improved team learning.
The paper also discusses likely implementation challenges: practical feasibility within services, possible role ambiguity among clinicians, and the fact that some families or patients might find joint appointments demanding.
This article presents an innovative service-model description based on reflective practice rather than a randomized trial; it is intended to inform service design and discussion rather than to provide definitive evidence of clinical outcomes.
This article reports a descriptive, reflective-practice–based model rather than results from a controlled trial. It focuses on service design, potential benefits, and implementation challenges; it does not present comparative outcome data.
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