Capabilities, opportunities and motivations of staff to provide hearing support to long-term care home residents with dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many long-term care home (LTCH) residents have dementia and hearing loss, causing communication difficulties and agitation. Residents rely on staff for hearing support, but provision is often inconsistent. This study used the Behaviour Change Wheel's Capability, Opportunity and Motivation model to understand why LTCH staff do or do not, provide hearing support to residents with dementia who they believe could benefit from it.

Design

An online survey exploring hearing support provision, capabilities, opportunities, motivations and demographics. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, within-participants ANOVA and multiple linear regression.

Study sample

165 LTCH staff.

Results

Staff provided hearing support to 50% of residents with dementia wh

SUBMITTER: Cross H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11225945 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature