The Care Perception Questionnaire

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ch. Van Audenhove ◽  
G. Van Humbeeck ◽  
N. Spruytte ◽  
G. Storms ◽  
M. De Hert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Scale Construction ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Perception ◽  
Promax Rotation

Summary: Major changes have taken place over the last decade in the mental health care services in Belgium as well as in the rest of Europe. To track these developments, Shepherd and colleagues developed an instrument to assess the degree of perceived accomplishment of 11 key areas in such care. This instrument was translated and adapted as the Care Perception Questionnaire. In clinical settings the instrument can be a good tool for exploring the perspective of patients and professionals regarding the 11 key areas. However, for research purposes it is not practical to work with the 28 separate items or with the 11 key areas. The goal of this study is to reduce the 11 key areas to a smaller number of scales with good psychometric properties and with relevance to clinical practice. Using principal-component analysis by means of promax rotation and scale construction, we developed four statistically reliable and meaningful scales: (1) support in social relations and practical aid, (2) treatment and monitoring of the course of the illness, (3) information and insight, and (4) coordination and continuity of care. The relevance of the findings for clinical work and for research is discussed.

scholarly journals Sykepleieres erfaringer med innføring av sykepleiediagnoser

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 89� ◽  
Author(s):  
Torunn Hatlen Nøst ◽  
Lene Elisabeth Blekken ◽  
Beate André
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Focus Group Interview ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Intervention Period ◽  
Working Process ◽  
Nursing Documentation ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Nursing Diagnoses

<strong>Nurses’ experiences with introduction of nursing diagnoses</strong><br />Background: Studies have shown that use of nursing diagnoses can improve quality of documented assessments, quality of described interventions and outcomes, and that they facilitate communication and continuity between practitioners in the health care services. Collaboration between a hospital and a university college was established to study the implementation of nursing diagnoses. Purpose: This study intends to investigate the feasibility of the study and the experiences nurses in clinical practice have after an implementation of nursing diagnoses. Method: A focus group interview with six participants was conducted. The researchers’ experiences upon the intervention feasibility were logged as notes. Results: The participants found the intervention helpful and educational, but also frustrating. Nursing diagnoses seems to be useful in clinical work, but the intervention period may have been too short to achieve changes in the documentation work. Conclusion: There is need for further studies so that nursing documentation can be a good tool to support nurses in their working process.

Justice, Respect, and Recognition in Mental Health Services

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Brodwin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Psychiatric Survivor ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Harmful Effects

This chapter raises a key question for the interdisciplinary study of health and justice: is dialogue possible between theoretical models and first-person testimony about the harms caused by injustice? To consider this question, the chapter examines the claim that disrespect—the systematic devaluation of others in a way that excludes them from reciprocal social relations—is a form of injustice. The philosopher Stephen Darwall and social theorist Axel Honneth conceptually elucidate the links between justice, respect, and recognition. Their normative arguments offer a high-order conceptual framework for recognizing people’s equal worth as human beings (and the harmful effects of denying such recognition). This chapter compares their abstract frameworks with a landmark autobiography by a founder of the psychiatric survivor movement. The search for commensurability between these texts exposes the precise difference between experience-far and experience-near genres of ethical expression. This chapter adopts a similar approach as DeBruin et al. (this volume) in examining popular cultural discourses in light of formal theory. Both chapters take seriously the lay narratives and forms of ethical argumentation that circulate outside the academy. Both envision a plural ethics of justice and health that acknowledges how ordinary people interpret and respond to institutionalized oppression in health-care services.

Inquiry into Environment and Body: Women, Work, and Chronic Illness

1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 737-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Moss ◽  
Isabel Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Medical Geography ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Critical Approaches

The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and health care services are emerging, which complement the well-developed focus on the spatial aspects of disease and service delivery. Yet in reconceptualising the links between place, space, and health, care must be taken in theorising in context experiences of health and illness. By context we mean the richly textured social formation wherein social relations are threads of a tapestry woven together. One topic which lends itself to such an inquiry is how material and discursive bodies combine to create identities for women with chronic illness around issues of gender and (dis)ability within the context of the wider social political economy. In this paper, we propose a feminist political economic analysis of environment and body as an addition to the critical frameworks emerging in medical geography. We first discuss what a radical body politics entails conceptually. Then we make suggestions with regard to undertaking such inquiry, using in illustration empirical work on women's reshaping of their environment in response to chronic illness. This type of investigation extends previous work on the formation of women's identities, experiences of chronic illness, and the materiality of everyday life. Last, we recast the concepts of environment, body, and identity formation while maintaining a commitment to the fluidity of conceptual and material boundaries.

scholarly journals Un-boxing Gender Variance: A Preliminary Investigation into Patient Satisfaction with Services for Gender Variance within the NHS.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice warner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Expert Advice ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Gender Variance ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Gender Variant ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Clinical Presentations

SUBMITTED AS PART OF A PSYCHOLOGY BSc. To knowledge, previous research into gender variance has not differentiated subgroups of trans people in terms of their clinical presentations. This study examined different types of gender variant people in terms of their satisfaction with health care services, both general (primary care) and specific to their needs (gender identity clinics; GIC). An online questionnaire assigned participants to groups according to their symptomology and took measures of satisfaction of each clinical setting that trans people wishing to seek expert advice (in order to transition or not) must attend. No significant differences in satisfaction were found between types of trans people or among distinct clinical settings. However, “competency of practitioner” (an aspect of care known to hold importance for trans people), was found to be significantly higher at the GICs. These findings support previous literature on the nature of trans people as a whole and explore new ways to include certain subgroups of gender variant people in research.

Value Co-Creation of Health Care Services Through Competency Modeling

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironobu Matsushita ◽  
Kyoichi Kijima
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Competency Modeling ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Model Of Competency

With the growing challenge of an ageing population and decreasing working population, health services management systems are required to develop, evaluate and retain human resources such as nurses more efficiently and effectively. However, the fact remains that nursing shortage has become a societal problem in many countries. In order to help health services administrators align more effective health services management systems, this study focuses on value co-creation through competency modeling as a crucial factor within the community of institutional care services. First, this study found that nurses are a heterogeneous group in terms of required competencies. Second, different roles require different sets of competencies. Third, the urgent need to adapt to innovation in clinical settings also requires that nurses have different sets of competencies. Finally, this paper proposes a model, namely evolutionary action research for value co-creation, to make a shared internal model of competency work effectively in the context of value co-creation of care services.

scholarly journals Socio-economic, demographic, and behavioural determinants of women’s empowerment in Mozambique

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0252294
Author(s):  
Sofia Castro Lopes ◽  
Deborah Constant ◽  
Sílvia Fraga ◽  
Nafissa Bique Osman ◽  
Daniela Correia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Safe Sex ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Behavioural Determinants

Introduction Empowerment is considered pivotal for how women access and use health care services and experience their sexual and reproductive rights. In Mozambique, women’s empowerment requires a better understanding and contextualization, including looking at factors that could drive empowerment in that context. This study aims to identify socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioural determinants of different domains of women’s empowerment in Mozambique. Methods Using the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) conducted in 2015 for Mozambique, a sample of 2072 women aged between 15 and 49 years old were included in this study. The DHS’s indicators of women’s empowerment were used in a principal component analysis and the obtained components were identified as the domains of empowerment. Logistic regressions were run to estimate the association of socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioural characteristics with each domain of empowerment. Crude and adjusted odds ratios (OR) and respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated. Results Three domains of women’s empowerment were identified, namely (1) Beliefs about violence against women, (2) Decision-making, and (3) Control over sexuality and safe sex. Region, rurality, the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) and partner’s controlling behaviours were associated with Beliefs about violence against women, while Decision-making and Control over sexuality and safe sex were also associated with education, age and wealth. Employment, polygamous marriage and religion was positively associated with Decision-making, and access to media increased the odds of Control over sexuality and safe sex. Conclusion Women’s empowerment seems to be determined by different socio-economic, demographic, and behavioural factors and this seems to be closely related to different domains of empowerment identified. This finding affirms the multi-dimensionality of empowerment as well as the importance of considering the context- and community-specific characteristics.

scholarly journals Psychological Typhoon Eye Effect During the COVID-19 Outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guixiang Wang ◽  
Yan Zhang ◽  
Simiao Xie ◽  
Pu Wang ◽  
Guanghui Lei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Psychological Reactions ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Cognitive Subscale

Background: The COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei, has brought serious consequences to the lives and mental health of people and has induced psychological stress and affected behavior.Methods: This study used self-designed questionnaires and SPSS to analyze the psychological and behavioral responses of people in different regions during the COVID-19 pandemic and to check for the presence of “psychological typhoon eye” (PTE) effects. The questionnaires adopted three measurement subscales, namely, the risk cognitive subscale, stress response subscale, and behavioral response subscale, and these were administered online (www.wjx.cn) to investigate the psychological and behavioral conduct of respondents from three areas that have been affected by COVID-19 to varying degrees. Exploratory factor analysis and principal component analysis were conducted to explore the factorial structure of these subscales, and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to explore the structural validity of the questionnaires. The analysis results were used to build a revised 18-item questionnaire which validity was evaluated via ANOVA and LSD.Results: Results confirm the presence of PTE in the research areas during the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak and highlight some significant differences in the cognition and emotions of the residents in these areas. PTE affected the cognition, emotions, and cognitive and emotional responses of the respondents but did not affect their behavioral responses.Conclusion: The findings underscore the urgency of providing sustainable mental health care services across different areas during the COVID-19 outbreak. The residents of those areas worst hit by the pandemic, who may not have taken the situation seriously, require emotional guidance the most. Meanwhile, the residents of other areas, who showed the most negative psychological reactions to the pandemic, require a sense of security, a timely “disconnection” from negative information, an accurate cognition of stress, and an acceptance of self-responses.

scholarly journals Determinants of Patient Satisfaction in The United Arab Emirates Health Care Industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hameedah Sayani ◽  
Immanuel Azaad Moonesar ◽  
Lama Zakzak ◽  
Mona Mostafa Elsholkamy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
World Class

Abstract Background: The United Arab Emirates is aiming to provide 'world-class healthcare' to its citizens. This study aims to determine the association between overall satisfaction and various aspects of health care services in the United Arab Emirates on a country level. Methods: The data was collected from 5,855 respondents on the affordability, quality, accessibility, and responsiveness dimensions of health care. Besides frequency tables and descriptive statistics, statistical methods, such as Principal Component Analysis and Multiple Regression, were used to reduce and model the association between dependent (overall satisfaction) and independent (affordability, quality, accessibility, and responsiveness) variables. Results: The findings indicated higher satisfaction levels with quality and accessibility and lower satisfaction levels with affordability and responsiveness. Recommendations are provided to address the latter two factors. Conclusion: The study identifies issues in health care service provision in the United Arab Emirates and offers recommendations about enhancing affordability and responsiveness.

scholarly journals Intra-Urban Trip Generation Factors in Developing World: A Study of Ogun State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Muse Olayiwola Solanke ◽  
◽  
Bashiru Adisa Raji
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Trip Generation ◽  
Urban Travel ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Ogun State ◽  
Bivariate Correlation

Intra-urban travel is basic to urban residents. It is occasioned by the need of urban residents to carry out their activities in different places either by necessity or by choice. The magnitude of trips generated depends on the complex interaction of socio-economic characteristics of the cities and those of their residents. However, existing knowledge on the subject matter seems to concentrate on the latter to the sheer neglect of the former. This study therefore examines factors of intra-urban trip generation with emphasis on socio-economic characteristics of urban centres as well as those of urban residents. The study is based on both secondary and primary data from 14 selected urban centres of the state. Secondary data on 16 factors of growth of city were collected. These include population, industrial establishments, educational institutions, recreation and sporting services, postal and telecommunication services, health care services and shopping services. Primary data, through questionnaire survey were collected on socio-economic characteristics of urban residents and their trip generation frequency. 2,100 well completed questionnaires were analysed for this study. Simple bivariate correlation and multiple regression analyses were employed to examine the relationships between socio-economic characteristics of urban centres and trips generation. Similar analyses were also employed in the examination of the nature and extent of relationship between socio-economic characteristics of residents and trips generated. Principal component analysis was used in reducing socioeconomic variables of the urban centres. The socio-economic characteristics of urban centres provide a greater explanation of the criterion with 53.80 % (F=13.982 P ≤ 0.05) while socio-economic characteristics of residents provide 46.20% (F=137.62 P ≤ 0.01) of the explanation. The study establishes the need for caution among transport researchers in using socio-economic characteristics of urban residents as major determinants of urban travel especially in the developing countries.

Determinants of Customer Satisfaction in the United Arab Emirates Health Care Industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hameedah Sayani ◽  
Immanuel Azaad Moonesar ◽  
Lama Zakzak ◽  
Mona Mostafa Elsholkamy
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
World Class

Abstract Background: The United Arab Emirates is aiming to provide ‘world-class healthcare’ to its citizens. This study aims to study the association between overall satisfaction and various aspects of health care services in the United Arab Emirates on a country level. Methods: The data was collected from 5,855 respondents on affordability, quality, accessibility, and responsiveness dimensions of health care. Besides frequency tables and descriptive statistics, statistical methods, such as Principal Component Analysis and Multiple Regression were used for dimension reduction and model the association between dependent (overall satisfaction) and independent (affordability, quality, accessibility, and responsiveness) variables. Results: The findings indicated higher levels of satisfaction with quality and accessibility and lower levels of satisfaction with affordability and responsiveness. Recommendations are provided to address the latter two factors. Conclusions: The study identifies issues in health care service provision in the United Arab Emirates and offers recommendations about enhancing affordability and responsiveness.

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