Keywords
Supporting factors, home care services, patient satisfaction
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Home care services are an extension of hospital services provided by hospital staff. The hospital must conduct evaluation, coordination, and education for home care patients to ensure proper care and expedite their recovery. This service also introduces a new concept to the community, as it can help save on costs and equipment
A systematic review examined the factors influencing patient satisfaction using home care services by following the PRISMA guidelines. PROSPERO submitted and approved the study protocol with the following numbers: CRD42023482315.
Researchers have searched articles through the ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. Two hundred eighty-eight articles were selected, but 10 met the inclusion criteria. It was found that factors influenced patient satisfaction with home care services and two things that did not affect them: financial aspects and working time.
Fifteen aspects influence patient satisfaction and two aspects that do not influence patient satisfaction.
Supporting factors, home care services, patient satisfaction
The nursing profession is experiencing a paradigm shift, jobs initially classified as vocational have been transformed into professional. Previously seen as an extension or assistant to doctors, nurses are now seen as equal partners with doctors in developed countries. The nursing service is a method of implementing nursing practice for individual patients, families, and communities to promote health, well-being, and maintaining and recovering from disease. Nurses must be able to take the opportunity to be at the policy-making table with a unified voice to support each other from the scope of nursing practice for health equity.1,2
Patients admitted to the hospital already have follow-up care plans at home. Nurses are responsible for educating patients and their families to make patients independent so that they can reduce hospitalization, which reduces costs and time.3,4 In general, home care services are a continuation of hospital services and are carried out by hospital staff, but in evaluation, education and coordination between patients and home care staff are needed to speed up their recovery. It is also a new orientation for the community because it can save costs and equipment.5–7 Home care services require a formal method to measure quality and allocate health services that impact individual patients’ health, so further research is needed on home care and the progress of health services that continue to develop.8,9
Providing nursing services in home care services does not reflect fair, safe and cultural aspects. Barriers are still found such as communication, prejudice, ethnocentrism, lack of education, lack of support from health services.10 The research results show that implementing culturally sensitive nursing care training can increase motivation to interact with patients, even a nurse who was previously reluctant to interact because it was difficult to communicate can finally interact well.11
One home care model that uses an innovative approach offers the potential to improve quality and address home care challenges. These challenges are resources, time and task rules, health and social care. The form of innovation shows a move from transactional to care that builds trust and relationships between service users, moving towards a proactive and preventive care model. Involve individual care teams and technology as part of the way of working rather than just a care solution.12
Quality home care services in the aspects of reliability, guarantee, direct evidence, empathy and responsiveness are related to patient family satisfaction.13 Health is synonymous with well-being, happiness and life satisfaction which is the level of physical, emotional, intellectual, social, moral and spiritual strength. Human health is a state of satisfaction or happiness and well-being that reflects the level of fulfillment of physical, psychological, spiritual, social, aesthetic and material needs and desires that are felt.14
A systematic review was conducted to examine the factors influencing patient satisfaction using home care services by following the PRISMA guidelines. Eligibility criteria included human subjects of all ages, genders, and with or without disease, interventions with actions that can increase satisfaction, results of qualitative and quantitative research that state the influence on happiness, and literature review of home care patient satisfaction.
Report characteristics are all studies written in English and published from 2012 to 2022. Researchers searched articles through the ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Google Scholar databases. Researchers have checked out article references from database searches to find additional relevant articles. We used Boolean operators to search for the following terms: (Home Care Services) AND Satisfaction and derivatives of these terms, full-text article type, English—subject nursing and health professions, with open access.
In the data extraction process, irrelevant articles, such as articles about patient satisfaction in nursing homes and outside home care, were removed, resulting in 228 relevant articles based on title and abstract. These articles were screened, and 31 were removed due to duplication, leaving 197 relevant articles based on title and abstract. Next, variables that met the inclusion criteria were selected, namely variables that influenced home care patient satisfaction, leaving 73 pieces. Next, the selection was carried out by rereading the suitability of the variables, leaving ten complete articles that met the inclusion criteria.
Critical appraisal is carried out to identify the quality of the research included in it. The author carries out the process. Four research articles used a list of qualitative studies, five studies used quantitative research checklists, and one used a mixed methods study.
The nine synthesis steps without meta-analysis (SWiM) in systematic reviews guided data analysis.15 In the first group, the studies are to be synthesized. Grouping populations, interventions, outcomes, and research design. Next, in stages 2–6, answer review questions. Similarities and differences mainly related to assessment methods, assessment tools, assessors involved, and acquired competencies were identified. Findings are formulated based on keywords for categorized. The findings are categorised into two major themes: the assessment process and the competencies obtained. The findings are then entered into tables, indicating study groups and themes, presenting and discussing results, and identifying limitations.
After selecting and using the Prisma chart (Figure 1), ten articles were obtained that were the aim of this research, namely identifying factors that influence satisfaction with home care services. The first journal’s influencing factor is respecting patients and maintaining their dignity.16 Furthermore, the second journal states that nurses must understand the patient’s illness and establish a relationship of mutual trust.17 The third journal shows the opposite: economic factors and working hours do not affect home care patient satisfaction.18 Furthermore, the four can coordinate in a comprehensive, continuous assessment of service and collaborate with multidisciplinary science.19 Fifth, sixth, and seven, well-prepared routines, language and communication, and empathy.20–22 Eighth, nine, and ten, namely quality nursing services, a combination of competence and professional skills in wound management, continuity of care, and training and experience of nurses.23–25
Nurses can start home care services with a humble attitude and have an attitude of respecting their clients and listening to them. This attitude is very important because it is related to making decisions for clients to suit their needs.26 The attitude and responsibility of nurses show that nursing actions are not just technical actions, but require a process of change and dynamic organization.27 Nurses maintain a person’s dignity, which is one of the fundamental actions and rights of every human being since birth to have the same dignity. Respectful attitudes to anyone must be carried out by nurses because it is the core concept that is guaranteed for every human being.28
A nurse when caring for a home care patient must be flexible, be able to trust each other and be able to approach the patient. Meeting after meeting will describe the positive aspects that are assessed by the client. Nurses must be able to explain the importance of mutual trust, and the need to create a sense of trust.29 Nurses must be able to understand their clients’ conditions, because they will seek a deep understanding of their illness, the causes of their illness, and prevention of complications.30
Nurses contribute to coordinating with the health team, to support the interventions provided. Good coordination also has an impact on meeting the complex needs of clients.31 Collaboration with other nurses needs to be improved, and made systematic by nurse managers, because it can improve patient safety culture.32 Nurses strive for continuous professional development and undertake lifelong learning to improve standards of care. Nurses are also motivated to improve their knowledge, skills and follow the latest scientific developments.33
Nurses can provide empathy, namely being able to understand the client’s personal experience without being tied down, and being able to communicate well including emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects. A health professional can provide empathy well which can influence therapeutic changes in their clients. Clients will feel safe to convey their problems in order to be able to provide services according to their needs.34 Understanding empathy towards patients can improve nursing communication skills.35
Home care nurses can provide continuous professional nursing services by involving their families. Nurses need home care guidelines as a reference to provide the best quality of care to patients.36 Professional skills are also needed such as wound care. Registered nurses are required to have diverse competencies and perform good quality evidence-based actions. Consistent and structured areas of competency such as wound care can be improved and developed to produce services according to client expectations.37 Optimal home care depends on collaborative action and dialogue between the client, family, home care nurse, and general practitioner. A good starting point is when the interdisciplinary collaboration meeting is held for good results in home care services.38
Respect and maintaining dignity are supporting factors that influence patient satisfaction found in nurses or home care teams. Meanwhile, what can be learned and trained is understanding the client’s illness, establishing a relationship of trust, assessing services, collaboration, language, communication, empathy, and quality of service. Aspects that must be possessed include experience and training. The limitation of this research is that home care services are not specific to specific cases or are general. The articles reviewed also vary between qualitative, quantitative and mixed research.
Factors that influence patient satisfaction using home care services become input for the provider’s management. Nurses and teams can pay attention to factors that can affect patient satisfaction. There are two factors that do not influence patient satisfaction, namely finances and working time. This will be an evaluation for subsequent research.
Figshare: Factors Influencing Patient Satisfaction in Home Care Services: A Systematic Review. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26489203.V1. 39
This project contains the following underlying data:
1. PRISMA flow diagram: the number of records identified, included and excluded and the reasons for exclusions in this review.
2. Summary review: The summary review contains an analysis of the selected articles in this review.
Data are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero “Universal” data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
Figshare: Factors Influencing Patient Satisfaction in Home Care Services: A Systematic Review. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.26489203.V1 39
This project contains the following extended data:
1. PRISMA checklist: a critical tool in the field of systematic reviews
2. PRISMA flow diagram: the number of records identified, included and excluded and the reasons for exclusions in this review.
Data are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero “Universal” data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
We thank The Center for Higher Education (BPPT) and the Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (LPDP) for the significant support in the development of this article.
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Are the rationale for, and objectives of, the Systematic Review clearly stated?
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Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed.
Reviewer Expertise: Long-term care, Dementia, Late life cognitive impairment, Quality of life and quality of care in long-term care.
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