Feasibility study to develop and test a Cultural Health Check Toolkit
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A feasibility study to develop and test a Cultural Health Check (CHC) toolkit designed to assist healthcare workers and organisations in the provision of safe, compassionate and dignified care for older people.
IRAS ID
134684
Contact name
Robert McSherry
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Teesside University
Research summary
This feasibility study will intially engage with service users and providers of older people services. These will include patients and carers, service providers, i.e, healthcare professsionals, healthcare support workers, administrative and supportive staff working in practice. The study aims to help develop and test the three elements of the Cultural Health Check (CHC), a) Staff Questionnaire and User Carer Questionniares b)Satff and User/Carer One-one Semi-Structured Interviews and c) Documentary Analysis framework (DAF).
The CHC aims to foster, safeguard and protect the quality and standards of care by creating safe caring, person-centred environments. The study will empower healthcare workers by providing them with a framework that facilitates critical self-scrutiny in order to monitor the culture and working environment. This will be achived through staff, patient/pubic engagement where the CHC will be tested by healthcare workers and patients to identify cultural factors that impact on patient dignity, safety, quality and governance.
REC name
North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/NE/0358
Date of REC Opinion
17 Jan 2014
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion