Design and Development of the Home Healthcare Worker Observation Tool

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• Journal Article:
  Journal of Nursing Education and Practice
• Personal Author:
  Bien, Elizabeth Ann ; Davis, Kermit G. ; Small, Tamara F. ; Reutman, Susan ; Gillespie, Gordon L.
• Description:
  Background: The rapidly growing number of home healthcare workers (HHCW) are exposed to unique occupational hazards within each patient home. This article describes the development of an observation tool to document occupational hazards HHCWs encounter. Methods: Tool development followed three steps: determining content domain, content validity, and inter-rater agreement. Results: Expert feedback guided the revision of content domain to 636 items. Scale level content validity index (S-CVI) was 0.90. Inter-rater agreement tests resulted in percent agreement and accuracy mean of 89.5% and frequency variables resulted in standard deviations from 0 to 8.62. Conclusions: The observation tool encompasses the diverse range of occupational hazards HHCWs encounter; inter-rater percent agreement and overall accuracy scores were acceptable. Future pilot testing of this tool among broader raters and populations is recommended to characterize its usability, internal consistency, and reliability to assess HHCW occupational hazards. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Home Care Services Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Workplace; Home Health; Home Care; Occupational Health; Content Validity; Environmental Exposures; Ergonomic Exposures Nurses; Nursing; Home Health Care; Health Care Workers; Work Environment; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Hazards; Exposure Assessment;
• Source:
  J Nurs Educ Pract 2021 Sep; 11(9):29-38
• ISSN:
  1925-4040
• Pubmed ID:
  35371370
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8970532
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  T42 OH008432/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  17 pdf pages
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  9
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064761
• Contact Point Address:
  Elizabeth Ann Bien, College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
• Email:
  bienea@ucmail.uc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• Performing Organization:
  University of Cincinnati
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3ec3e7e3746747e48f5eea12c1d2c33ca2d8c4c36a9c9ba5ce49bb261a44fcbbf14429e797632c0c8a61b82c6fd03f4be9a59d696c0bfaa039bd695d01da604c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/116006/cdc_116006_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 277.43 KB ]