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'What vision?': experiences of Team members in a community service for adults with intellectual disabilities.
- Source :
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research; Mar2017, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p197-209, 13p, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Background In the UK, the closure of 'long-stay' hospitals was accompanied by the development of community teams (CTs) to support people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) to live in community settings. The self-reported experiences of staff working in such teams have been neglected. Methods Focusing on a single county-wide service, comprising five multi-disciplinary and inter-agency CTs, we measured perceptions among the health care and care management Team members of (1) their personal well-being; (2) the functioning of their team; and (3) the organisation's commitment to quality, and culture. Results Almost three-quarters of the questionnaires were returned (73/101; 72%). The scores of health care practitioners and care managers were very similar: (1) the MBI scores of more than half the respondents were 'of concern'; (2) similarly, almost four in ten respondents' scores on the Vision scale of the TCI were 'of concern'; (3) the perceived commitment to quality (QIIS-II Part 2) was uncertain; and (4) the organisational culture (QIIS-II, Part 1) was viewed as primarily hierarchical. Discussion The perceived absence of a vision for the service, combined with a dominant culture viewed by its members as strongly focussed on bureaucracy and process, potentially compromises the ability of these CTs to respond proactively to the needs of people with IDs. Given the changes in legislation, policy and practice that have taken place since CTs were established, it would be timely to revisit their role and purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- LONG-term care facility personnel
GROUP homes
CARE of people with intellectual disabilities
JOB stress
TEAMS in the workplace
HEALTH care teams
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
EMPLOYEES
ANALYSIS of variance
COMMITMENT (Psychology)
COMMUNITY health services
CORPORATE culture
EXPERIENTIAL learning
FISHER exact test
MEDICAL personnel
PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities
SENSORY perception
PUBLIC welfare
RESEARCH funding
WORK
WELL-being
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09642633
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121199085
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jir.12312