Eliciting the educational priorities of home care workers caring for adults with heart failure.
Heart failure
congestive heart failure
education
health services research
home care
home care worker
home health aide
Journal
Gerontology & geriatrics education
ISSN: 1545-3847
Titre abrégé: Gerontol Geriatr Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8101294
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
pubmed:
16
7
2020
medline:
6
5
2022
entrez:
16
7
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Although home care workers (HCWs) are increasingly caring for adults with heart failure (HF), many feel unprepared and lack HF training. To serve as the foundation for a future educational intervention, we aimed to elicit HCWs' HF educational needs. We partnered with the largest healthcare union in the US to recruit 41 HCWs employed by 17 home care agencies. Using the nominal group technique, we asked HCWs to respond to three questions: When caring for an HF patient For question 1, participants ranked HF signs and symptoms most highly, followed by HF treatment and medications. For question 2, chest pain was most worrisome, followed by neurologic changes and shortness of breath. For question 3, participants struggled with encouraging patients to follow a heart-specific diet. HCWs expressed a need to learn more about signs and symptoms of HF and ways to assist patients with HF self-care. These findings can inform the development of an HF training program for HCWs that specifically addresses their expressed needs.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Although home care workers (HCWs) are increasingly caring for adults with heart failure (HF), many feel unprepared and lack HF training. To serve as the foundation for a future educational intervention, we aimed to elicit HCWs' HF educational needs.
METHODS
We partnered with the largest healthcare union in the US to recruit 41 HCWs employed by 17 home care agencies. Using the nominal group technique, we asked HCWs to respond to three questions: When caring for an HF patient
RESULTS
For question 1, participants ranked HF signs and symptoms most highly, followed by HF treatment and medications. For question 2, chest pain was most worrisome, followed by neurologic changes and shortness of breath. For question 3, participants struggled with encouraging patients to follow a heart-specific diet.
CONCLUSIONS
HCWs expressed a need to learn more about signs and symptoms of HF and ways to assist patients with HF self-care. These findings can inform the development of an HF training program for HCWs that specifically addresses their expressed needs.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32666906
doi: 10.1080/02701960.2020.1793760
pmc: PMC7855568
mid: NIHMS1610845
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
239-249Subventions
Organisme : NHLBI NIH HHS
ID : K23 HL150160
Pays : United States
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