PMID- 22974461
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130422
LR  - 20211203
IS  - 1748-5908 (Electronic)
IS  - 1748-5908 (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2012 Sep 13
TI  - Nursing home administrators' perspectives on a study feedback report: a cross 
      sectional survey.
PG  - 88
LID - 10.1186/1748-5908-7-88 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: This project is part of the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) 
      program of research, a multi-level and longitudinal research program being 
      conducted in 36 nursing homes in three Canadian Prairie Provinces. The overall 
      goal of TREC is to improve the quality of care for older persons living in 
      nursing homes and the quality of work life for care providers. The purpose of 
      this paper is to report on development and evaluation of facility annual reports 
      (FARs) from facility administrators' perspectives on the usefulness, 
      meaningfulness, and understandability of selected data from the TREC survey. 
      METHODS: A cross sectional survey design was used in this study. The feedback 
      reports were developed in collaboration with participating facility 
      administrators. FARs presented results in four contextual areas: workplace 
      culture, feedback processes, job satisfaction, and staff burnout. Six weeks after 
      FARs were mailed to each administrator, we conducted structured telephone 
      interviews with administrators to elicit their evaluation of the FARs. 
      Administrators were also asked if they had taken any actions as a result of the 
      FAR. Descriptive and inferential statistics, as well as content analysis for 
      open-ended questions, were used to summarize findings. RESULTS: Thirty-one 
      facility administrators (representing thirty-two facilities) participated in the 
      interviews. Six administrators had taken action and 18 were planning on taking 
      action as a result of FARs. The majority found the four contextual areas 
      addressed in FAR to be useful, meaningful, and understandable. They liked the 
      comparisons made between data from years one and two and between their facility 
      and other TREC study sites in their province. Twenty-two indicated that they 
      would like to receive information on additional areas such as aggressive 
      behaviours of residents and information sharing. Twenty-four administrators 
      indicated that FARs contained enough information, while eight found FARs 'too 
      short'. Administrators who reported that the FAR contained enough information 
      were more likely to take action within their facilities than administrators who 
      reported that they needed more information. CONCLUSIONS: Although the FAR was 
      brief, the presentation of the four contextual areas was relevant to the majority 
      of administrators and prompted them to plan or to take action within their 
      facility.
FAU - Bostrom, Anne-Marie
AU  - Bostrom AM
AD  - Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, 
      Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden. anne-marie.bostrom@ki.se
FAU - Cranley, Lisa A
AU  - Cranley LA
FAU - Hutchinson, Alison M
AU  - Hutchinson AM
FAU - Cummings, Greta G
AU  - Cummings GG
FAU - Norton, Peter G
AU  - Norton PG
FAU - Estabrooks, Carole A
AU  - Estabrooks CA
LA  - eng
GR  - MOP 53107/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120913
PL  - England
TA  - Implement Sci
JT  - Implementation science : IS
JID - 101258411
SB  - IM
MH  - Canada
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Data Collection
MH  - Feedback
MH  - *Health Facility Administrators
MH  - Health Services Research/*organization & administration
MH  - Homes for the Aged/*organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Job Satisfaction
MH  - Nursing Homes/*organization & administration
MH  - Quality Improvement/*organization & administration
MH  - Translational Research, Biomedical
PMC - PMC3499148
EDAT- 2012/09/15 06:00
MHDA- 2013/04/23 06:00
PMCR- 2012/09/13
CRDT- 2012/09/15 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/08/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/09/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/04/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/09/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1748-5908-7-88 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1748-5908-7-88 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Implement Sci. 2012 Sep 13;7:88. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-88.