Taking preventative health messages into the wider caring professions: the views of housing staff and tenants.
Taking preventative health messages into the wider caring professions: the views of housing staff and tenants.
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将预防性健康信息纳入更广泛的护理行业：住房工作人员和租户的观点。
DOI：
10.1093/pubmed/fdy175
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
E. Goyder
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
L. Blank;E. Holding;M. Crowder;Sally Butterworth;Ed Ferrari;E. Goyder
Background
In order to harness the potential impact of the wider public health workforce, innovative services are providing opportunities for social housing staff to extend their public health role. This study explored the views of housing professionals and social housing residents on the delivery of preventative health messages by housing staff in the context of the evaluation of the roll-out of a new service.
Methods
We conducted semi structured interviews with 21 neighbourhood housing officers, 4 managers and 30 social housing tenants to understand their views on the widening role and the potential impact on the preventative healthcare messages being delivered.
Results
Neighbourhood officers were willing to discuss existing health conditions with tenants; but they often did not feel comfortable discussing their lifestyle choices. Most tenants also reported that they would feel discussions around lifestyle behaviours to be intrusive and outside the remit of housing staff.
Conclusions
Resistance to discussions of lifestyle topics during home visits was found among both housing staff and tenants. Appropriate staff training and the development of strong and trusting relationships between officers and tenants is needed, if similar programmes to extend the role of housing staff are to succeed in terms of health impact.
