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Validation of the measure of processes of care for use when there is no child development centre
- Authors:
- McCONACHIE H., LOGAN S.
- Journal article citation:
- Child: Care, Health and Development, 29(1), January 2003, pp.35-45.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Clinical governance requires measurement of health care outcomes. The Measure of Processes of Care (MPOC) is a postal questionnaire developed in Canada to reflect parents’ perceptions of the quality of services received. Examines the MPOC's usefulness for service evaluation for children with disabilities and their families. The MPOC was revised minimally for British idiom, taking out explicit references to a ‘Centre’. Surveys of parents using child disability services were carried out in 3 rural and 2 urban communities, where there are no child development centres, with a total of 495 analysable questionnaires returned. In addition, 32 parents using a home nursing service for children with multiple disabilities completed questionnaires. The return rate ranged from 49% to 67%. Factor analysis confirmed a 5-factor solution but only one factor mapped clearly onto the Canadian structure. Using the revised structure, the surveys provide evidence of the discriminating potential of the MPOC, comparing the perceptions of parents who do or do not have a care co-ordinator, and comparing recipients of a home nursing service with matched users of general services. The MPOC can be used as a measure of outcome for child disability services of differing organisational structures.
Finding out things
- Author:
- THOMPSON John
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Examines the issues in disability research with users and their carers. Research methods, user involvement and outcomes are considered.
European disability pension policies: 11 country trends 1970-2002
- Editor:
- PRINZ Christopher
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 426p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
During the last twenty years, the longer-term sustainability of social insurance systems has become a major issue in all European countries. Analysts and governments are increasingly alarmed at the growth in the number of disability benefit recipients, and the expansion of disability benefit schemes via increasing benefits, broadening coverage and easing access.While policy measures differ widely, policy goals tend to converge. This book analyses and compares the often controversial disability benefit policies in eleven European countries, examining their rationale, impact and outcome, and the direction of reform in the future. Iesearchers and students generally.
Quality indicators: disabled children's and parents' prioritisations and experiences of quality criteria when using different types of support services
- Authors:
- MITCHELL Wendy, SLOPER Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 33(8), December 2003, pp.1063-1080.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Current health and social care policy seeks to develop and refine standards of service quality. However, policies have so far largely focused upon statistically based service output indicators. Recognizing the importance and yet limitations of this, especially in services for disabled children and their families, this paper draws upon qualitative and quantitative data to explore indicators that are meaningful and relevant to disabled children and their families. Results demonstrate the need to look beyond a generic family-based perception of service quality, as children and parents value different aspects of service quality and prioritize different indicators when using different types of services. Although some indicators are regarded as 'core' quality indicators, irrespective of service type, others are only prioritized for specific types of services.
An evaluation of a young disabled people's peer mentoring/support project
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Young disabled people face particular barriers in growing up and becoming independent as their experiences of direct and indirect discrimination may lead to a lack of self-confidence and isolation from others of the same age and from the opportunities non-disabled young people enjoy. The Young Disabled People's Peer Mentoring /Peer Support Project developed a range of activities to address these needs over a two-year period, building on previous work. The project was evaluated with the help of both adults and younger disabled people.
Issues raised by users on the future of welfare, rights and support
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with the Shropshire Disability Consortium and with a coalition of user organisations in Sheffield, looked at the issues that had emerged from discussions with users about the future of rights and welfare, and the ways that users were being involved in shaping the support they received. The project worked at a national and a local level, with Shaping Our Lives carrying out country-wide work through booklets and a questionnaire on key issues, which produced a qualitative sample of 26.
Social service users' own definitions of quality outcomes
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Shaping Our Lives project, working in partnership with Black User Group (London), Service User Action Group (Wakefield), Ethnic Disabled Group Emerged (Manchester) and an alliance of user groups in Waltham Forest (London), looked at the application in practice of on-going work about what service users meant by 'user-defined outcomes'. Both the research and the development projects covered a range of experiences - including those of older people, mental health users, minority ethnic communities and disabled people and involving 66 users in all.
Prevalence and outcomes for parents with disabilities and their children in an Australian court sample
- Authors:
- LLYWELLYN Gwynnyth, McCONNELL David, FERRONATO Luisa
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 27(3), March 2003, pp.235-251.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study reviewed the court files of all care and protection matters initiated by the statutory child protection authority and finalized in a 9-month period (n=285) at two Children's Courts in New South Wales, Australia. Results found that parents with disabilities featured in almost one-third of the cases. Parental psychiatric disability was most prevalent, followed by parental intellectual disability. Significant associations were also found between parental disability and court outcome with a disproportionately large number of children of parents with intellectual disability being made wards of the state.
Does assessment make a difference for people with dementia? The effectiveness of the Aged Care Assessment Teams in Australia
- Authors:
- HOWE Anna L., KUNG Francis
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 18(3), March 2003, pp.205-210.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The needs of individuals with dementia and other psychiatric problems of old age have received increased attention in Australia over the last decade. This paper reports on the role of Aged Care Assessment Teams (ACATs) in managing these clients, and the extent to which they are differentiated from other clients in the assessment process and outcomes recommended. Data on some 26,500 clients seen by ACATs in Victoria in the second half of 1999 are analysed to show firstly, the relationship between a diagnosis of dementia and reporting of disability in orientation, secondly, characteristics of clients with and without a diagnosis of dementia and lastly, outcomes for groups of clients defined on the basis of a diagnosis of dementia and disability in orientation.
Adaptation policies especially for children: key factors for effective outcomes
- Author:
- HEYWOOD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 11(1), February 2003, pp.22-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Looks at the findings of research supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into the effectiveness of adaptations for disabled children. Highlights the importance of good adaptations, and the problems of poor adaptations that do not allow for children's growth or development. Looks at the implications for policy and practice, and offers a checklist to help with planning.