Importance of personal and professional experience for hospital staff in person-centred dementia care: a cross-sectional interview study using freelisting in a UK hospital ward.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To detail how hospital staff with differing personal and professional caregiving experiences approach the care of patients with dementia, in order to make practical recommendations for practice.

Design

Cross-sectional qualitative interviews.

Setting

A UK hospital ward providing dementia care.

Participants

A complete hospital ward staff team, constituting 47 hospital staff from 10 professions.

Methods

Hospital staff were asked to list their approaches to emotion-focused care in individual, ethnographic freelisting interviews. Cultural consensus analysis was used to detail variations in approaches to dementia care between staff subgroups.

Main outcome measures

The most salient listed descriptions of care emphasised by staff members with pe

SUBMITTER: Petty S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6502240 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature