Person-Centered Communication for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia: Four Communication Analysis Methods.

ABSTRACT: Person-centered communication recognizes the individual as a person and responds to the individual's feelings, preferences, and needs. This secondary analysis tested four interdisciplinary strategies to measure changes in person-centered communication used by nursing home staff following an intervention. Thirty-nine nursing assistants were recruited from 11 nursing homes and participated in the three-session Changing Talk communication training. Video recordings were collected at baseline, immediately postintervention, and at 3-month follow-up. Staff communication was analyzed using behavioral, psycholinguistic, and emotional tone coding of elderspeak communication and content analysis of communication topics. Sign rank test was used to compare postintervention changes for each measure of

SUBMITTER: Williams KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5581294 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature