Perceptions about Compliant Flooring from Senior Managers in Long-Term Care |
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| Authors: | Chantelle C. Lachance Valeriya O. Zaborska Pet-Ming Leung Fabio Feldman Stephen N. Robinovitch |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Knowledge Translation Program, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;2. Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;3. Centre for Hip Health and Mobility, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;4. Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada;5. Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;6. Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada;7. Fraser Health Authority, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This study explored barriers and facilitators to adoption of compliant flooring as a fall injury prevention strategy within long-term care from the perspective of 18 long-term care senior managers. In-depth interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using the Framework Method. The most important organizational facilitators to adoption were potential for injury prevention and long-term care staff's openness to change. The most important organizational barriers to adoption were negative effects to long-term care staff and financial considerations (i.e., cost and lack of funding). The most important general organizational considerations were uncertainties about clinical effectiveness, effects on long-term care staff, and flooring performance. Overall, compliant flooring was viewed positively for long-term care. The findings also suggest an opportunity for knowledge translation to inform long-term care senior managers about the existing evidence on compliant flooring. |
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| Keywords: | Qualitative methods Safety flooring Injury prevention Long-term care Falls |
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