An international validation study of the care thermometer: a tool supporting the quality of ergonomic policies in health care

Knibbe, J.J.; Knibbe, N.E.

doi:10.3233/wor-2012-0903-5639

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“…Second, selection might have occurred since participation of nursing homes and hospitals was on a voluntary basis and targeted those that employed ergocoaches on wards. 24 These organisations may have been more focussed on preventing high physical load. 25 The actual use of ergonomic devices in this study may, therefore, be higher than in a random sample of nursing homes and hospitals.…”

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Individual and organisational determinants of use of ergonomic devices in healthcare

et al. 2010

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ObjectiveThis study aims to identify individual and organisational determinants associated with the use of ergonomic devices during patient handling activities.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was carried out in 19 nursing homes and 19 hospitals. The use of ergonomic devices was assessed through real-time observations in the workplace. Individual barriers to ergonomic device use were identified by structured interviews with nurses and organisational barriers were identified using questionnaires completed by supervisors and managers. Multivariate logistic analysis with generalised estimating equations for repeated measurement was used to estimate determinants of ergonomic device use.Results247 nurses performed 670 patient handling activities that required the use of an ergonomic device. Ergonomic devices were used 68% of the times they were deemed necessary in nursing homes and 59% in hospitals. Determinants of lifting device use were nurses' motivation (OR 1.96), the presence of back complaints in the past 12 months (OR 1.77) and the inclusion in care protocols of strict guidance on the required use of ergonomic devices (OR 2.49). The organisational factors convenience and easily accessible, management support and supportive management climate were associated with these determinants. No associations were found with other ergonomic devices.ConclusionsThe use of lifting devices was higher in nursing homes than in hospitals. Individual and organisational factors seem to play a substantial role in the successful implementation of lifting devices in healthcare.

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Individual and organisational determinants of use of ergonomic devices in healthcare

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“…For this purpose, no simple, feasible and validated scale exists for determining the individual residents’ need for physical assistance. Existing systems, such as the Care Thermometer, RAI or MAPO Method, provides risk assessment in the manual handling of residents, primarily aiming to estimate the physical function of the resident or pinpoint which ergonomic equipment and/or preventive measures are needed in caring for the residents [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. While this is also useful, these systems are quite extensive and burdensome for regular use.…”

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“…Moreover, they do not give the information needed for daily distribution of residents, with different physical assistance needs, between workers within teams in eldercare. Nonetheless, these existing systems have not been validated against observations of the residents’ physical assistance needs, but against self-registration or other assessment tools [ 10 ]. Thus, we need a simple, feasible and validated tool to assess the resident’s need for physical assistance in eldercare.…”

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A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities

Jacobsen

Stevens

Karstad

et al. 2022

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Accurate and simple measures for classifying nursing home residents according to their care needs would be valuable for planning eldercare work. Our aim was to validate a developed classification scale of residents’ need for physical assistance. Eldercare workers and managers in 20 Danish nursing homes classified 1456 residents into four categories (from light to complete need for physical assistance). We validated the resident need-for-assistance scale against 4716 workplace observation sequences of caring activities performed by eldercare workers. We found a strong correlation between the resident need-for-assistance scale and observed number of resident handlings (r = 0.71) and a moderate correlation for observed duration of care (r = 0.57). The discriminative ability of the scale was good for both number of resident handlings (ROC-AUC = 0.81) and for duration of care (ROC-AUC = 0.76). Our findings indicate that this simple scale is valid and feasible for classifying residents according to their physical assistance needs.

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“…Finally, it gives a clear indication of the risk involved in PH (low, moderate, high) [ 17 ]. A previous study has shown the TilThermometer to be valid for use in international care facilities for risk assessment of PH [ 21 ]. The study was performed in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands.…”

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“…The TilThermometer covering five mobility groups has already been translated from Dutch into English [ 21 ]. However, it has not yet been translated into Swedish and so far there have been no research studies using this risk assessment instrument in a Swedish context.…”

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Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the risk assessment instrument TilThermometer for a Swedish version – patient handling in the healthcare sector

Buck

Sandqvist

Strid

et al. 2022

BMC Musculoskelet Disord

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Background Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are common in the healthcare sector due to exposure of physical demanding work tasks. Risk assessment is necessary to prevent injuries and promote a safety culture. The TilThermometer has proved to be useful in the Netherlands for assessing healthcare workers’ physical exposure to patient handling. The aim of this study was to translate the risk assessment instrument TilThermometer from Dutch to Swedish, perform cross-cultural adaptation, and evaluate its linguistic validity to a Swedish healthcare context. Methods Translation and validation process was performed according to following eight steps: 1) Translation (two translators), 2) Synthesis, 3) Back-translation (two back-translators), 4) Synthesis, 5) Linguistic review (one bilingual reviewer), 6) fifteen experts in a panel review according to Delphi-method, 7) Semi-structured interviewing eleven informants, analyzed using qualitative content analysis and step 8) discussion and input from creators of the instrument. Results A new Swedish version, the TilThermometer, was provided through the translation process (steps 1–5). The linguistic validity and usefulness were confirmed thru step 6 and 7. Consensus was reached in the expert review after two rounds, comments were analyzed and grouped into five groups. The qualitative content analyses of the interviews emerged in to three categories: 1) “User-friendly and understandable instrument”, 2) “Further development”, and 3) “Important part of the systematic work-environment management”. Conclusion In this study, the cross-cultural adaption and translation performed of the Swedish version of TilThermometer assured linguistic validity. This is this first phase before further testing the psychometrics aspects, inter-rater reliability and feasibility of TilThermometer. In the second phase TilThermometer will be implemented and evaluated together with other measures in the Swedish healthcare sector.

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An international validation study of the care thermometer: a tool supporting the quality of ergonomic policies in health care

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Individual and organisational determinants of use of ergonomic devices in healthcare

Individual and organisational determinants of use of ergonomic devices in healthcare

A Simple Resident Need-for-Physical-Assistance Scale in Eldercare: Validation Using 4716 Observation Sequences of Caring Activities

Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the risk assessment instrument TilThermometer for a Swedish version – patient handling in the healthcare sector

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