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Table 6 Identified pains and (desired) gains ‘what motivates to evaluate’

From: The needs of key-stakeholders for evaluating client’s experienced quality of home care: a qualitative approach

Category

Pains

Gains

What motivates one to evaluate

▪ Evaluating is seen as complaining (C,I,F)

▪ Experienced lack of motivation to evaluate (F,P)

▪ Experienced duplications when formally evaluating (F,P)

▪ Difficulties expressing experiences and being sincere (I,F)

▪ Feel not being heard by caregiver (C)

▪ Feel burdened discussing organizational issues (I)

▪ Being on your own as caregiver in home environment (F)

▪ Experienced having to be more involved with their own clients in sheltered housing vs. community (P)

▪ Not part of care process or professional community (P)

▪ Feels good to talk about care experience (C)

▪ Sharing care experiences is good for involving client in care process (F)

▪ Show understanding and taking changes seriously (F)

Desired gains

Evaluate anonymously (I,F)

Team ownership and bottom-up support for tools (F,P)

Build toward relationship with evaluator (I)

Share mutual appreciation between caregivers (I)

Share responsibility to provide good care for client (F)

Bring relevant quality themes under attention of caregivers (P)

  1. Mentioned by C Clients, I Informal caregivers, F formal caregivers, P managers/policy officers