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Emotional safety of people with dementia: first results of EMSIDE – a model project
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Veröffentlicht: | 30. April 2018 |
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Background and Purpose: Emotional safety will continue to be a meaningful topic of patient safety research. A feeling of safety enables people with dementia to behave actively in their living environment. Although some efforts have been made to describe emotional safety in the literature, there is little research that addresses the conditions of emotional safety explicitly in the context of dementia from a persons’s perspective. Therefore, our question is how can the project “Emotional safety in the context of dementia” (EMSIDE, 2017-2020) contribute to collecting and to sharing knowledge about emotional safety in people with dementia in their living environment?
Methods: The project consists of several methods: performing a systematic review, conducting individual interviews, and focus groups. To enhance the insight in the needs of the participants and to improve the implementation of the project results, continuous working groups, feedback loops, workshops and expert meetings are planned in detail.
Research Focus: The project has a predominately qualitative inductive design, focussing on people with dementia in an early stage of their disease and their informal caregivers. Qualitative content analysis will be performed.
Methodological and Theoretical Focus: EMSIDE is based on an integrative approach that combines practical relevant and research methods.
Results: First results will provide a comprehensive overview in emotional safety of people with dementia. The project will result in a draft screening tool and practice recommendations.
Conclusions: The project provides a current state of research on emotional safety in the context of people with dementia and will add needed knowledge.