You can download a short briefing document of key points from the information on this website
You can download an A4 copy of the 5-stages of SNAP – this can be useful as an aide memoire
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Kuhn I, Farquhar M. Support needs of patients with COPD: a systematic literature search and narrative review. International Journal of COPD 2018:13 1021-1035
https://www.dovepress.com/support-needs-of-patients-with-copd-a-systematic-literature-search-and-peer-reviewed-article-COPD - Gardener AC, Ewing G, Farquhar M. Enabling patients with advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease to identify and express their support needs to health care professionals: a qualitative study to develop a tool. Palliative Medicine 2019;33(6):663-675 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0269216319833559
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Mendonca S, Farquhar M. The Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) Tool: a validation study. BMJ Open 2019;9:e032028. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032028 https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/11/e032028.full.pdf
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Deaton C, Farquhar M. Understanding how the Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) enables identification, expression, and discussion of patient support needs: a qualitative study. Chronic Illness 2021 DOI: 10.1177/17423953211047840 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17423953211047840
- We will add more publications to this page as they are published, and announce these on Twitter via @SNAPstudyteam
SNAP has been presented at national and international conferences and a range of regional UK meetings for practitioners, charities, research networks and academics.
National and international conference presentations include:
- European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2020 – online
- Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists 2020 – online
- European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2019 – Berlin
- European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2018 – Bern
- Marie Curie 2017 – London
- European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2017 – Madrid
- British Thoracic Society – Winter Meeting 2016 – London
- European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) 2016 (Research Congress) – Dublin
- Hospice UK 2016 – Liverpool
Key conference posters include:
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Farquhar M. Validation of the Support Needs Approach for Patients (SNAP) tool to enable patients with advanced COPD to identify and express their support needs to healthcare professionals. (Marie Curie 2018 abstract). BMJ Support Palliat Care 2018; 8:367
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Farquhar M. Tackling the rhetoric: an evidence-based Support Needs Tool to enable supportive and palliative care in advanced non-malignant disease (Marie Curie 2017 abstract). BMJ Support Palliat Care 2017;7:354
- https://spcare.bmj.com/content/7/3/A354.1
- prize-winning poster – Joanna Mugridge Award for best poster 2017: https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/research/information-researchers/annual-research-conference/joanna-mugridge-research-award
- click to see poster – Resource 4 – SNAP Tool Poster (Marie Curie 2017) v061017
- Gardener AC, Ewing G, Farquhar M, on behalf of the SNAP1 Study Team. Towards person-centred care: development of a patient support needs tool for patients with advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in primary care (BTS Winter 2016 abstract). Thorax 2016;71(Suppl 3):A208-A209
- We will add more conference posters to this page as they are published, and announce these on Twitter via @SNAPstudyteam
Blogs about, or related to, SNAP:
- https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/new-research-to-help-people-with-copd/170275
- Introduces SNAP and the SNAP2 Study
- https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/06/10/improving-care-and-support-for-people-living-with-breathlessness/
- Outlines the six recommendations of the Living with Breathlessness Study – Recommendation 3 relates to the concept of SNAP
If you need to send the SNAP Tool to patients by letter it is important to get the messaging right within the letter so that patients understand what the tool is for. Here is a template cover letter for you to adapt for your service:
If you are introducing SNAP as a new intervention to your team or clinical setting you will find it helpful to complete, with your team, a SNAP Delivery Plan – we have a blank template for this and a guidance document to help you complete it. Both are available in the “Implementation resources Pack for Unit 2” on the SNAP “Training” page. You will also find it helpful to complete SNAP training Unit 2.