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ABSTRACT: Aim
Home care nurses often use the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (interRAI-HC) to assess health needs. However, this tool does not assess complexity. This study proposes to derive a complexity index (CI) from the interRAI-HC using the operational definition of the dedicated COMID checklist (COmplexité Multidimensionnelle des prises en soins Infirmières à Domicile).Design
Data were collected at the baseline assessment of the fraXity study (N = 231, aged ? 65), which relied on an observational longitudinal design.Methods
Measures were the interRAI-HC, from which the CI binary variables were computed and the COMID, used as a reference.Results
Twenty-six CI variables were computed from the interRAI-HC, and all but three correlations were significant. The correlation between the CI score and the COMID score was ? = 0.730 (p < .001).Conclusions
The study demonstrates that complexity can be assessed directly from the interRAI-HC by deriving a CI.
SUBMITTER: Busnel C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877136 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Busnel Catherine C Vallet Fanny F Ludwig Catherine C
Nursing open 20201125 2
<h4>Aim</h4>Home care nurses often use the Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (interRAI-HC) to assess health needs. However, this tool does not assess complexity. This study proposes to derive a complexity index (CI) from the interRAI-HC using the operational definition of the dedicated COMID checklist (COmplexité Multidimensionnelle des prises en soins Infirmières à Domicile).<h4>Design</h4>Data were collected at the baseline assessment of the fraXity study (N = 231, aged ≥ 65), which rel ...[more]