NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York City, USA.
University of Texas at Arlington School of Social Work, USA.
J Appl Gerontol. 2022 Mar;41(3):729-735. doi: 10.1177/07334648211013974. Epub 2021 May 14.
An understanding of adult day service centers' (ADC) impacts on clients' health and well-being has been hampered by a lack of large-scale data. Standardizing data collection is critical to strengthening ADC programs, demonstrating their effectiveness, and enabling them to leverage additional funding streams beyond Medicaid. We distributed an electronic survey on current data collection efforts to ADCs nationally to determine categories of data ADCs are collecting related to clients' health. In our sample ( = 248), only 32% of ADCs collected patient-level data for research and analysis-most commonly on activities of daily living, cognition, nutrition, and caregiver strain. However, validated assessment tools were used in less than 50% of the cases. ADCs are willing to collect data: More than 70% reported a willingness to participate in future studies. National studies piloting data collection protocols with uniform outcome measures are needed to advance the understanding of ADCs' capabilities and impacts.
成人日间服务中心（ADC）对客户健康和福祉的影响一直受到缺乏大规模数据的阻碍。标准化数据收集对于加强 ADC 计划、展示其有效性以及使其能够利用除医疗补助计划以外的其他资金来源至关重要。我们向全国的 ADC 分发了一份关于当前数据收集工作的电子调查，以确定 ADC 收集与客户健康相关数据的类别。在我们的样本中（=248），只有 32%的 ADC 为研究和分析收集患者水平的数据——最常见的是日常生活活动、认知、营养和护理人员压力。然而，不到 50%的情况下使用了经过验证的评估工具。ADC 愿意收集数据：超过 70%的 ADC 表示愿意参与未来的研究。需要进行全国性的研究，试用具有统一结果衡量标准的数据收集协议，以提高对 ADC 能力和影响的理解。
