title: Using a measure of person-perception skills to identify outstanding home care workers.
abstract: This study involved university-community collaboration with an international home care company for the purpose of developing a tool to identify talented caregivers. Tested was the hypothesis that workers' ability to provide care in person-centered ways would be positively associated with their ability to describe others in complex ways--that is, their person-perception skills. Company coordinators functioning as supervisors used an innovative 10-item instrument to screen 554 home health aides for their person centeredness. The most and least person-centered workers were evaluated for their person-perception skills. Person centeredness was positively associated with the complexity of home care workers' descriptions of others.
authors.affiliation: Training & Technology Team, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67260, USA. Kerry.Grosch@Wichita.edu
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grosch
authors.forename: Louis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Medvene
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D018576:Home Health Aides; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D010465:Perception; D011361:Professional Competence; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States