{"id":3863,"date":"2016-12-19T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2022-05-02T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T20:20:09","slug":"action-research-residential-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionresearchplus.com\/action-research-residential-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing stress in residential care with older people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a troubled conscience\u00a0is stressful. This kind of stress\u00a0seriously influences care providers ability to offer good care. So it’s\u00a0important to take measures to address, and relieve but preferably prevent this kind of stress.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0did our participatory action research in the context of \u00a0residential care for older people. We found that using a shared problem processing approach was fruitful for relieving care providers\u2019 burden of stress. It also helped increase quality of care.<\/p>\n

Our finding is that it is crucial to build a fruitful dialogue between the researchers, the carers and the residents of the care facility. Turns out that the\u00a0participatory action research \u00a0model we introduced was\u00a0easy for carers to adapt both as a problem-solving process in clinical practice and for nursing research.<\/p>\n

We describe our experiences and discuss them in relation to relevant literature and theory.<\/p>\n