University Centre forNursing and Midwifery

project

The Ghent Global IAD Monitoring Tool (GLOBIAD-M) to monitor the healing of incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD): design and reliability study

project duration: 01/03/2017 - 30/11/2017

Summary

The aim of this project was to develop and pilot test the GLOBIAD-M, a tool (based on the GLOBIAD tool for IAD severity assessment) to monitor changes in IAD status over time. A two-phase instrument design and reliability study was conducted. A pilot study (including 36 observations) in 9 patients sufffering from IAD was performed in a hospital setting. The GLOBIAD-M includes information about the patient profile, IAD categorisation, surrounding skin assessment, and assessment of patient-related symptoms (e.g. itching and pain). A dashboard (graph and colour-grading system) supports IAD status monitoring.

promotor

Prof. dr. Dimitri Beeckman
Prof. dr. Dimitri Beeckman

Prof. dr. Dimitri Beeckman holds a BSc. in Nursing, an MSc. in Nursing and Midwifery, an MSc. in Education, and a PhD from Ghent University in Belgium. His doctoral thesis focused on pressure ulcer prevention and management of Incontinence- Associated Dermatitis (IAD). In 2010, he became a lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery at King’s College London in the UK. Currently, he works as a Professor of Skin Integrity and Clinical Nursing at the University Centre of Nursing and Midwifery at Ghent University in Belgium. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey (Guilford, UK) and at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin, Ireland). Prof. Beeckman is Executive Board Member of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (EPUAP) and serves as Chair of the Scientific Committee since 2013. He also co- chairs the EPUAP Education Workstream. In 2016, he was a member of the International Scientific Committee of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies Conference. In March 2017, he chaired the 1st European Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management Masterclass in Ghent. He is specialized in skin integrity research, clinical trials, healthcare education, implementation science and instrument development and validation. In 2013-2014, he authored the Belgian guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment (supported by the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre, KCE). In 2015, he authored the International Best Practice Document about prevention and management of Incontinence- Associated Dermatitis, published by Wounds International. He acts as policy advisor of the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety, and Environment. He authored and co- authored over 80 scientific publications in international peer- reviewed journals. He presented his research in > 50 countries all over the world. He is Consulting Editor of the Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing, the Journal of Tissue Viability, as well as Associate Editor of BMC Geriatrics. Prof. Beeckman holds different Fellowships such as Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing and the European Academy of Nursing Science.

staff members

Karen Van den Bussche
Karen Van den Bussche

Karen Van den Bussche is a PhD student at the University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery at Ghent University in Belgium. Karen holds a BSc. in Nursing (2010), a MSc. in Nursing and Midwifery (2012), and completed the Specific Teacher Training Program in Health Sciences in 2013. Her doctoral research focuses on the development and validation of a Core Outcome Set for clinical incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) research, and tools for IAD classification and observation. Previously, Karen worked for two years as a project researcher at the Nutrition and Food Safety unit within the Department of Public Health (Ghent University).