One of the challenges of providing healthcare services is to enhance its value (for patients, staff and the service) by integrating the informal caregivers into the care process, both concretely managing their patient's health conditions and treatment (co-executing) and participating in the whole healthcare process (co-planning). This study aims at exploring the co-production contribution to the healthcare process, analysing whether and how it is related to higher caregivers’ satisfaction with service care and reduced staff burnout, in the eyes of the staff. It also investigated two pos- sible factors supporting caregivers in their role of co-producers, namely relationship among staff and informal caregivers related to knowledge sharing (i.e. an ability de- terminant supporting co-production) and related to role social conflict (i.e. a willing- ness determinant reducing co-production). Results of a structural equation model on a sample of 119 healthcare providers employed by neurorehabilitation centers in Italy with severe acquired brain injury confirmed that knowledge sharing positively related with caregivers’ co-executing and co-planning. Also, social role conflict was negatively related with co-executing but positively with co-planning. Furthermore, co-planning resulted in being unrelated to both outcomes, whereas co-executing was associated with caregivers’ satisfaction, as measured by staff perceptions. Overall, our data provided initial empirical evidence supporting the ability of the determi- nant's contribution in allowing informal caregivers to assume an active role in both co-production domains. Furthermore, as expected, the role of conflict willingness de- terminant was found to be a hindering factor for co-executing but, conversely, a trig- ger for co-planning. This result should be considered more carefully in future studies.

Caregivers’ engagement during in-hospital care of sABI’s patients: evaluation of informal co-production from the health providers’ perspective / Farnese, MARIA LUISA; Girardi, Giovanna; Fida, Roberta; Bivona, Umberto; Bartolo, Michelangelo; De Tanti, Antonio; Intiso, Domenico; Scarponi, Federico; Antonucci, Gabriella. - In: HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY. - ISSN 0966-0410. - 28:6(2020), pp. 2086-2094. [10.1111/hsc.13019]

Caregivers’ engagement during in-hospital care of sABI’s patients: evaluation of informal co-production from the health providers’ perspective

Maria Luisa Farnese
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Giovanna Girardi;Roberta Fida;Michelangelo Bartolo;Gabriella Antonucci
2020

Abstract

One of the challenges of providing healthcare services is to enhance its value (for patients, staff and the service) by integrating the informal caregivers into the care process, both concretely managing their patient's health conditions and treatment (co-executing) and participating in the whole healthcare process (co-planning). This study aims at exploring the co-production contribution to the healthcare process, analysing whether and how it is related to higher caregivers’ satisfaction with service care and reduced staff burnout, in the eyes of the staff. It also investigated two pos- sible factors supporting caregivers in their role of co-producers, namely relationship among staff and informal caregivers related to knowledge sharing (i.e. an ability de- terminant supporting co-production) and related to role social conflict (i.e. a willing- ness determinant reducing co-production). Results of a structural equation model on a sample of 119 healthcare providers employed by neurorehabilitation centers in Italy with severe acquired brain injury confirmed that knowledge sharing positively related with caregivers’ co-executing and co-planning. Also, social role conflict was negatively related with co-executing but positively with co-planning. Furthermore, co-planning resulted in being unrelated to both outcomes, whereas co-executing was associated with caregivers’ satisfaction, as measured by staff perceptions. Overall, our data provided initial empirical evidence supporting the ability of the determi- nant's contribution in allowing informal caregivers to assume an active role in both co-production domains. Furthermore, as expected, the role of conflict willingness de- terminant was found to be a hindering factor for co-executing but, conversely, a trig- ger for co-planning. This result should be considered more carefully in future studies.
2020
acquired brain injury; co-production; health professionals; informal care
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Caregivers’ engagement during in-hospital care of sABI’s patients: evaluation of informal co-production from the health providers’ perspective / Farnese, MARIA LUISA; Girardi, Giovanna; Fida, Roberta; Bivona, Umberto; Bartolo, Michelangelo; De Tanti, Antonio; Intiso, Domenico; Scarponi, Federico; Antonucci, Gabriella. - In: HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY. - ISSN 0966-0410. - 28:6(2020), pp. 2086-2094. [10.1111/hsc.13019]
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