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A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities

Accurate and simple measures for classifying nursing home residents according to their care needs would be valuable for planning eldercare work. Our aim was to validate a developed classification scale of residents’ need for physical assistance. Eldercare workers and managers in 20 Danish nursing ho...

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Autores principales: Jacobsen, Sandra Schade, Stevens, Matthew Leigh, Karstad, Kristina, Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard, Kühnel, Alexander Bork, Holtermann, Andreas
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710488
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author Jacobsen, Sandra Schade
Stevens, Matthew Leigh
Karstad, Kristina
Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard
Kühnel, Alexander Bork
Holtermann, Andreas
author_facet Jacobsen, Sandra Schade
Stevens, Matthew Leigh
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Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard
Kühnel, Alexander Bork
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description Accurate and simple measures for classifying nursing home residents according to their care needs would be valuable for planning eldercare work. Our aim was to validate a developed classification scale of residents’ need for physical assistance. Eldercare workers and managers in 20 Danish nursing homes classified 1456 residents into four categories (from light to complete need for physical assistance). We validated the resident need-for-assistance scale against 4716 workplace observation sequences of caring activities performed by eldercare workers. We found a strong correlation between the resident need-for-assistance scale and observed number of resident handlings (r = 0.71) and a moderate correlation for observed duration of care (r = 0.57). The discriminative ability of the scale was good for both number of resident handlings (ROC-AUC = 0.81) and for duration of care (ROC-AUC = 0.76). Our findings indicate that this simple scale is valid and feasible for classifying residents according to their physical assistance needs.
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spelling pubmed-95180952022-09-29 A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities Jacobsen, Sandra Schade Stevens, Matthew Leigh Karstad, Kristina Rasmussen, Charlotte Diana Nørregaard Kühnel, Alexander Bork Holtermann, Andreas Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Accurate and simple measures for classifying nursing home residents according to their care needs would be valuable for planning eldercare work. Our aim was to validate a developed classification scale of residents’ need for physical assistance. Eldercare workers and managers in 20 Danish nursing homes classified 1456 residents into four categories (from light to complete need for physical assistance). We validated the resident need-for-assistance scale against 4716 workplace observation sequences of caring activities performed by eldercare workers. We found a strong correlation between the resident need-for-assistance scale and observed number of resident handlings (r = 0.71) and a moderate correlation for observed duration of care (r = 0.57). The discriminative ability of the scale was good for both number of resident handlings (ROC-AUC = 0.81) and for duration of care (ROC-AUC = 0.76). Our findings indicate that this simple scale is valid and feasible for classifying residents according to their physical assistance needs. MDPI 2022-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9518095/ /pubmed/36078204 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710488 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities
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title_fullStr A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities
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title_short A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078204
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710488
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