How to ask: surveying nursing directors of nursing homes.

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• Personal Author:
  Boden LI ; Collins JE ; Gundersen DA ; Katz JN ; Sorensen, Glorian ; Vriniotis MG ; Wagner, Gregory R. ; Williams JAR
• Description:
  Background and Aims: Nursing home research may involve eliciting information from managers, yet response rates for Directors of Nursing have not been recently studied. As a part of a more extensive study, we surveyed all nursing homes in three states in 2018 and 2019, updating how to survey these leaders effectively. We focus on response rates as a measure of non-response error and comparison of nursing home's characteristics to their population values as a measure of representation error. Methods: We surveyed Directors of Nursing or their designees in nursing homes serving adult residents with at least 30 beds in California, Massachusetts, and Ohio (N = 2389). We collected contact information for respondents and then emailed survey invitations and links, followed by three email reminders and a paper version. Nursing home associations in two of the states contacted their members on our behalf. We compared the response rates across waves and states. We also compared the characteristics of nursing homes based on whether the response was via email or paper. In a multivariable logit regression, we used characteristics of the survey and the nursing homes to predict whether their DON responded to the survey using adjustments for multiple comparisons. Results: The response rate was higher for the first wave than for the second (30% vs 20.5%). The highest response rate was in Massachusetts (31.8%), followed by Ohio (25.8%) and California (19.5%). Nursing home characteristics did not vary by response mode. Additionally, we did not find any statistically significant predictors of whether a nursing home responded. Conclusion: A single-mode survey may provide a reasonably representative sample at the cost of sample size. With that said, however, switching modes can increase sample size without potentially biasing the sample. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Surveys And Questionnaires
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Non-respondents; Nursing Administration Research; Nursing Homes; Occupational Health; Survey Methodology Total Worker Health; TWH; Work Organization; Nurses; Health Care Workers; Questionnaires; Management Personnel; Statistical Quality Control;
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1002/hsr2.304
• ISSN:
  2398-8835
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Kansas ; Massachusetts ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065596
• Citation:
  Health Sci Rep 2021 Jun; 4(2):e304
• Contact Point Address:
  Jessica A.R. Williams, Population Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. Mail Stop 3044, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA
• Email:
  jwilliams13@kumc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction ; Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Health Science Reports
• End Date:
  20260831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1a7f41937fbcfab7fd63a16e5e76e5243b5d06f78b7d5de8e0870cff2cda2100c92aeef105d170874ce0b07163bf6d7acab53fe69c1a37f2f46e4081af49a4fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248992/cdc_248992_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.02 MB ]