Development and testing of the 'Culture of Care Barometer' (CoCB) in healthcare organisations: a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Concerns about care quality have prompted calls to create workplace cultures conducive to high-quality, safe and compassionate care and to provide a supportive environment in which staff can operate effectively. How healthcare organisations assess their culture of care is an important first step in creating such cultures. This article reports on the development and validation of a tool, the Culture of Care Barometer, designed to assess perceptions of a caring culture among healthcare workers preliminary to culture change.

Design/setting/participants

An exploratory mixed methods study designed to develop and test the validity of a tool to measure 'culture of care' through focus groups and questionnaires. Questionnaire development was facilitated through: a literatur

SUBMITTER: Rafferty AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5629717 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature