What do family members notice following an intervention to improve mobility and incontinence care for nursing home residents? An analysis of open-ended comments.

نویسندگان

  • Lené Levy-Storms
  • John F Schnelle
  • Sandra F Simmons
چکیده

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of family members' responses to open-ended interview questions about an intervention to improve incontinence and mobility care for their relative in a nursing home. DESIGN AND METHODS The study was a randomized, controlled intervention trial with incontinent nursing home residents (N = 145), wherein research staff provided toileting and walking assistance of sufficient intensity to significantly improve continence and mobility outcomes in the treatment group. Interviewers posed open-ended interview questions to family members after 8 weeks of intervention to assess if they noticed a difference in care. RESULTS Family responses to open-ended questions showed that, compared to the control group, the intervention group noticed significant overall improvement in incontinence and mobility care and in residents' outcomes in mobility. IMPLICATIONS Families' responses to open-ended questions were sensitive to improvements in incontinence and mobility care and may provide evidence for important care quality differences that would be missed if only direct satisfaction and discrepancy-based closed-ended questions were asked.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Gerontologist

دوره 47 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007