Mealtime verbal interactions among nursing home staff and residents with dementia: A secondary behavioural analysis of videotaped observations.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To characterize dyadic mealtime verbal interactions and examine the associations with staff and resident characteristics.

Design

A secondary analysis of 110 videotaped mealtime observations collected from a dementia communication trial during 2011-2014.

Methods

Videos involved 25 residents with dementia and 29 staff in nine nursing homes. Verbal behaviours (utterances) were coded during 2018-2019 using the Cue Utilization and Engagement in Dementia mealtime video-coding scheme, addressing eight positive behaviours and four negative behaviours. Bivariate analyses and multivariate regression models were used.

Results

Staff spoke three times more frequently (76.5%) than residents (23.5%). Nearly all staff utterances were positive (99.2%); 85.1% of residents'

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902310 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature