Studying the Experience of Care Through Latent Class Analysis: An Application to Italian Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT: Though many data on the experience of care of patients and caregivers are collected, they are rarely used to improve the quality of health care delivery. One of the main causes is the widespread struggle in interpreting and enhancing these data, requiring the introduction of new techniques to extract intelligible, meaningful, and actionable information. This research explores the potentiality of the latent class analysis (LCA) statistical model in studying experience data. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 482 parents of infants hospitalized in several Italian neonatal intensive care units. Through a 3-step LCA, four subgroups of parents with specific experience profiles, sociodemographic characteristics, and levels of satisfaction were identified. These were composed of parents

SUBMITTER: Spezia N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260577 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature