Health and burnout of home health care assistants: impact of a training intervention

Saavedra, Javier; Murvartian, Lara; Vallecillo, Natividad

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“…Staff training has been shown to be associated with improved patient outcomes [32], and it could also exert beneficial effects on the health of home care workers themselves. A study of 29 home care assistants in Spain reported that a program with 13 weekly training sessions was able to reduce their dysfunctional thoughts about care, which could be acted as mediators in caregiving stress [33]. Furthermore, a study on 25 hospital social workers found that professional skill-development training was able to alleviate burnout [34].…”

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A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study

Koo

Lee

et al. 2021

BMC Geriatr

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Background Caring of older adults with dementia at home can be challenging for home care workers. There is a need to develop suitable training for home care workers to improve the quality of dementia care. We evaluated a 12-week dementia care training including mobile e-learning, social networking, and mentoring support group meetings on the dementia care knowledge, attitude, and competence of home care workers. Methods This controlled study involved 140 home care workers from two home care agencies, which were selected from 12 home care agencies in eastern Taiwan. The two home care agencies were randomly allocated either the intervention group or the control group. The intervention group received mobile e-learning, mentor-led online social support networking, and monthly face-to-face mentoring support group meetings. Participants in the control group received 8-h conventional lectures. The primary outcomes were knowledge, attitude, and competence in dementia care. Questionnaires consisting of the Dementia Knowledge Assessment Scale, Approaches to Dementia Questionnaire, and Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff scale were administered to the participants at three time points (baseline, end of the 12-week intervention, and 12 weeks after the end of the intervention). Results Generalized estimating equation analyses showed that the intervention significantly improved the knowledge, attitude, and competence of home care workers on dementia care. The effects remained significant even 12 weeks after the end of the intervention. Conclusions A 12-week dementia care training program consisting of mobile e-learning, social networking, and face-to-face mentoring support group meetings were found to a feasible approach in improving the knowledge, attitude, and competence of home care workers. Mobile e-learning and online environment provides a platform that is self-directed, flexible, accessible, and cost-effective for training home care workers. The findings provide a call to action for nurse educators and policy makers to re-design existing dementia care training for home care workers to meet the critical home care needs of a growing dementia population. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov. NCT03822286. Registration date: 27/01/2019. Posted date: 31/01/2019.

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A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study

Koo

Lee

et al. 2021

BMC Geriatr

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Migration, ageing and transnational care arrangements of Ecuadorian care workers in Spain

Moré

2021

Population Space and Place

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This paper addresses the intersections between international migration, care and ageing. Through an analysis of the life stories of 24 Ecuadorian women who migrated to Spain between the years 1990-2000 and who work or have worked in the older people care sector, we aim to analyse the transnational strategies they have developed to care for their older relatives and also to explore how these women foresee their own old age and what strategies they are developing to face this stage. The results underscore the fact that while these women are capable of getting involved in transnational care arrangements to guarantee the wellbeing of their older relatives, they are faced with constraints that prevent them from achieving this objective due to their socially unequal position in terms of the intersecting axes of gender, social class and migratory status. Their main difficulties stem from limited access to geographic mobility, but also from the economic pressure they are subjected to in supporting long-term care for their older relatives. Furthermore, their own old age planning is weighed down by their work itineraries in the field of care. In some cases, transnational social protection strategies become a way to compensate for this position of social disadvantage, but they are not readily accessible to the women migrants who need them the most.

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Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Use and Burnout: Optimism as a Mediator in Spanish Nurses

Martínez

Martín

Linares

et al. 2021

JCM

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The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between burnout, the use of drugs (anxiolytics and antidepressants) and optimism in nurses. At the end of 2018, a cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out with a sample of actively employed nurses recruited by snowball sampling. The sample consisted of 1432 nurses in Andalusia (Spain), aged 22–58, who were working at the time of data collection, 83.2% of whom were women. Data were collected anonymously in an ad hoc questionnaire about sociodemographic information and use of anxiolytics and/or antidepressives: the Brief Burnout Questionnaire—Revised for Nurses (CBB-R) and the Life Orientation Test—Revised (LOT-R). Descriptive, mediation and moderation analyses were performed, with significant results having a p-value less than 0.05. The results on burnout showed significant relationships with use of the drugs. In particular, personal impact, job dissatisfaction and motivational abandonment were positively related to use of certain of the anxiolytics and antidepressants presented, while the correlation with the social climate was negative. Furthermore, optimism correlated negatively with drug use. Knowing that optimism can alleviate the repercussions of the use of drugs opens up new lines of research and the possibility of developing programs aimed at promoting a positive disposition in the face of complicated events.

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Health and burnout of home health care assistants: impact of a training intervention

Cited by 5 publications

References 30 publications

A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study

A dementia care training using mobile e-learning with mentoring support for home care workers: a controlled study

Migration, ageing and transnational care arrangements of Ecuadorian care workers in Spain

Anxiolytic and Antidepressant Use and Burnout: Optimism as a Mediator in Spanish Nurses

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