Improving fundamental care in hospitals

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Specialty: Health Services Research, Primary sub-specialty: Health Services Research; Health Category: Generic health relevance; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN38405571
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Southampton

Brief Summary

2022 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13435 (added 15/02/2022) 2019 Results article in https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2019.100001 (added 15/02/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-03-21
• Study Completion: 2019-05-01
• Last Update Posted: 1 March 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 732

Inclusion Criteria

Staff (interviews, surveys):
1. All nurses and care assistants (CAs) (Health care assistants, assistant practitioner, nursing auxiliaries) working on participating wards during any data collection period will be invited to be interviewed and eligible to complete the nursing questionnaires.
2. Age: 18+
3. Gender: Both

Patients (interviews, surveys):
1. Age: 18+
2. Gender: Both
3. Only people who speak English and who have the cognitive and communicative capacity to participate in a research interview (as assessed by the researcher and/or ward staff) will be invited to take part

Care interactions (patients and staff):
1. Age: 18+
2. Gender: both
3. Patients who are able to consent OR if lacking mental capacity, advice will be taken from an appropriate consultee in deciding whether or not to include someone

Exclusion Criteria

Staff:
1. Nursing students, bank and agency staff will not be eligible to be interviewed nor to complete the nursing questionnaires

Patients
1. Reverse-barrier nursed, receiving palliative care or are critically ill (research team will be advised by the nurse-in-charge when coming onto the ward)
2. Lacking capacity to decide about taking part in the research and/or unable to communicate their choices about taking part in the research AND a consultee (as defined by the Mental Capacity Act) cannot be consulted (NB patients who lack capacity will be included in care interaction observations if a consultee advises this is appropriate and the patient does not show signs of dissent)
3. Indicate either verbally or non verbally that they do not wish to take part
4. Unconscious or where there are clinical concerns that may preclude them from being approached (we will check with the nurse-in-charge on arrival on the ward whom we should not approach)
5. Receiving continual clinical care that would impair their capacity to make a decision about taking part
6. Communication difficulties, including e.g. language differences, auditory impairments, impair the recruiter's ability to communicate about the research or the patient's ability to communicate their choice about taking part
7. Unable to complete a questionnaire in English with interviewer help
8. Qualitative interviews - lacking the cognitive and communicative capacity to be interviewed

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified