Access to community support workers during hospital admission for people with spinal cord injury: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

A descriptive qualitative study.

Objectives

To evaluate a pilot project enabling people with spinal cord injury (SCI) to have their support workers accompany them into a non-SCI specialist/public hospital (excluding ICU) to perform selected care.

Setting

The study was conducted in New Zealand.

Methods

Interviews and focus groups with people with SCI, support workers, care agency staff, and hospital staff who participated in the pilot project.

Results

Twenty-five individuals participated in the study. Two themes captured participants' experiences of the pilot: 'Maintaining individualised care' and 'Role, tasks and responsibilities. Support workers were described as knowledgeable about SCI care needs and being better positioned to provide indi

SUBMITTER: Nunnerley JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7815731 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature