Project status | Complete |
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Contact | Óscar Brito Fernandes |
Host institution | Algarve Biomedical Center |
Team members | Óscar Brito Fernandes, Pedro Lobo Julião, Nuno Marques, Niek Klazinga, Dionne Kringos |
Funding information (if funded) | The study was funded by the Algarve Biomedical Center. The participation of OBF, NK, and Dk occurred in the scope of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (HealthPros — Healthcare Performance Intelligence Professionals) that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nr. 765141 (https://healthpros-h2020.eu). |
Project Summary | Study setting: Nursing homes in two regions of Portugal (Algarve and Alentejo) (April–July 2020) Description: We examined nursing home Covid-19 preparedness and the personnel’s perceived safety, including nursing home resident safety culture, in two regions of Portugal; we also sought to understand differences among nursing homes in those two regions. We followed a two-stage voluntary-based engagement with nursing homes: first, nursing homes self-assessed their Covid-19 preparedness using a checklist (n=138); and second, a follow-up video/phone call with a nursing home for a checklist walkthrough discussion (n=83). Later, when residents and workers in nursing homes of both regions were tested for Covid-19, a web-based, self-administered survey was conducted among personnel (n=720). We used descriptive statistics to characterize attributes of participating nursing homes and survey respondents, and to examine missing data patterns. We summarized the Covid-19 preparedness with the geometric mean across facilities on the compliance within each larger group of items in the checklist. We synthesized data from open-ended questions (both from the checklist and follow-up calls) into major categories to capture insights from the facilities’ contributions. We assessed correlations and performed an exploratory principal axis factor analysis on a 10-item question in the first module of the survey. Composite response frequencies relative to the personnel’s resident safety culture were computed by averaging positive, negative and neutral responses. |
Outputs / Expected Outputs | Study concluded, submission to peer-review journal by December 2020. |
KEYWORDS / CATEGORIES | |
Countries | Portugal |
Care setting | Care homes/LTC facilities |
Funding type | Public |
Impact/outcomes | Implementation outcomes | Staff skills |
Intervention types | Preventing/controlling COVID-19 infections |
Methods | Surveys |
Groups/organisations | Care provider/care organisations | Staff working in long-term care |