RELATIONSHIPS OF CARE STAFF IN ASSISTED LIVING

辅助生活护理人员的关系

• 批准号: 6683474
• 负责人: MARY M BALL
• 金额: $ 7.28万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6683474
• 关键词: adult human (21+); allied health personnel; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; health science manpower; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; job satisfaction; morale; occupational psychology; patient care personnel attitude; peer group; residential care facility; social behavior

The overall goal of the proposed study is to increase understanding of how assisted living facilities (ALFs) can create an environment that maximizes job satisfaction and retention of direct-care staff. The specific aims are: 1) to understand how social relationships in the work place affect job satisfaction and retention of direct-care staff in ALFs; and 2) to understand how individual, job, and workplace factors influence the development and maintenance of social relationships of direct-care staff in ALFs. Qualitative methods will be used to study two assisted living facilities in the metro Atlanta area. The proposed research sites are a 36-bed non-profit facility and a 90-bed for-profit facility with a special care dementia unit. Data collection will extend over a 6-month period and will consist of in-depth interviews, informal interviewing, and participant observation. In-depth interviews will be conducted with approximately 40 direct-care staff and with 2 administrators (the person responsible for management of care staff in each home). Care staff will be selected purposively to represent variation in personal characteristics (race and age), length of employment, shift, full- and part-time status, and job content (assisted living vs. special care unit). Observations and informal interviewing of care staff will take place during bi-weekly visits to each home over the 6-month data collection period. All in-depth interviews will be tape-recorded and transcribed. Data will be analyzed using a grounded theory approach. The proposed study will provide the first comprehensive, in-depth information about the viewpoints and experiences of direct-care staff in ALFs. It will offer valuable insights to long-term care researchers, policy-makers, and service providers by illuminating the role of work-place relationships in job satisfaction and retention of direct-care staff in this setting. The study also will improve understanding of the overall experience of direct-care workers in ALFs and of how best to conduct research with these workers. Based on these findings, we plan to submit an R01 proposal to conduct a statewide study investigating more broadly the individual, sociocultural, and environmental factors that influence job satisfaction and retention and the relationship between these variables in this setting.

拟议研究的总体目标是增加对辅助生活设施(ALF)如何创造一个最大限度地提高工作满意度和留住直接护理人员的环境的理解。具体目标是：1)了解工作场所的社会关系如何影响ALF中直接护理人员的工作满意度和留存；2)了解个人、工作和工作场所因素如何影响ALF中直接护理人员社会关系的发展和维持。定性的方法将被用来研究大都会亚特兰大地区的两个辅助生活设施。拟议的研究地点是一个有36个床位的非营利性设施和一个有90个床位的盈利性设施，还有一个特别护理痴呆症单元。数据收集将持续6个月，包括深入访谈、非正式访谈、 和参与式观察。将与大约40名直接护理人员和2名管理人员(负责管理每个家庭的护理人员)进行深入面谈。护理人员将被有目的地挑选，以代表个人特征(种族和年龄)、雇用年限、轮班、全职和兼职状态以及工作内容(辅助生活与特殊护理单位)的不同。在为期6个月的数据收集期间，护理人员将每两周访问一次，期间将对护理人员进行观察和非正式访谈 句号。所有深度采访都将被录音和转录。数据将使用扎根的理论方法进行分析。这项拟议的研究将提供关于ALF中直接护理人员的观点和经验的第一个全面、深入的信息。它将通过阐明工作场所关系在工作满意度和保留率中的作用，为长期护理研究人员、政策制定者和服务提供者提供有价值的见解 在这种环境下的直接护理人员。这项研究还将提高对ALF中直接护理人员的整体体验的理解，以及如何最好地与这些人员一起进行研究。基于这些发现，我们计划提交一份R01提案，进行一项全州范围的研究，更广泛地调查影响工作满意度和保留率的个人、社会文化和环境因素，以及在这种情况下这些变量之间的关系。