The National Research Centre for the Working Environment (NRCWE), Lersø Parkallé 105, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 23;19(17):10488. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191710488.
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 ( = 0.71) and a moderate correlation for observed duration of care ( = 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.
准确且简单的护理院居民护理需求分类方法对于规划老年护理工作非常有价值。我们的目的是验证一种针对居民身体辅助需求的分类量表。丹麦 20 家护理院的老年护理工作者和管理人员将 1456 名居民分为 4 个类别（从轻度到完全需要身体辅助）。我们将居民辅助需求量表与老年护理工作者执行的 4716 项照顾活动的工作场所观察序列进行了验证。我们发现居民辅助需求量表与居民处理次数的观察数量（ = 0.71）之间存在很强的相关性，与护理时间的相关性适中（ = 0.57）。该量表在居民处理次数（ROC-AUC = 0.81）和护理时间（ROC-AUC = 0.76）方面的区分能力都很好。我们的研究结果表明，这种简单的量表可以有效地对居民的身体辅助需求进行分类。
