The benefit of Kinaesthetics training for the nursing staff and the residents in a nursing home

1. Nursing staff :
1.1. Socio-demographic data:
Age, sex, education, profession, musculoskeletal disorders, recorded with questionnaire at baseline (T0)
1.2. Knowledge, skills, application, motivation and benefits of Kinaesthetics:
Questionnaire with different questions on knowledge, skills, application, motivation and benefits measured within one month after basic course (T1) and within one month after advanced course (T2).
1.3. Learning and conversion of Kinaestetics in the daily working routine:
Focus group interviews with questions on the importance of movement in nursing care, experience with the learning and the conversion of Kinaesthetics, measured within six months after advanced course (T3).
One Focus-group per unit = 3 groups
1.4. Movement competence:
The SOPMAS© Instrument (Structure of the Observed Patient Movement Assistance Skill) observes the nurses individual performance and learning in patient transfer tasks and patient participation in locomotion activities with 4 items: interaction, patient’s movement, nurse’s posture and movement, environment and auxiliary devices. The scale ranges from 1= no skills to 5= very good skills
Video recordings of two transfers of each nurses, e.g. bed-wheelchair/chair-bed, transfer in bed (positioning) will be recorded at the measurement points at the baseline before training (T0), within one month after basic course (T1) and within one month after advanced course (T2).
1.5. Subjective perceived physical strain:
Borg CR10 scale of perceived strain, with a scale from 0 = no strain at all to 10 = extreme strain

2. Residents :
2.1. Socio-demographic data:
Age, sex, movement problems, needed movement assistance, pain medication, participation in regular nursing home movement group, recorded with questionnaire at T0
2.2. Safety, comfort, pain and own participation during the mobilization.
Questionnaire: pain by scale from 0 = no pain to 5 = unbearable pain; safety from 0 = very unsafe to 5 = very safe; comfort from 0 = very uncomfortable to 5 = very comfortable; participation from 1 = very low participation to 5 = very high participation
Measurement points: immediately after every recorded mobilisation T0-T1-T2
2.3. Functional mobility:
The MOTPA instrument (mobility test for residents in acute care) observes the amount of assistance needed in 11 functional tasks, which includes
2.3.1. Lying in the bed: moving to the top, moving sideward, transfer from back to lateral position, transfer from lateral lying position to sitting on the edge of the bed
2.3.2. Sitting on the edge of the bed: moving forward, keep sitting position, stand up
2.3.3. Standing position: turning 180°, going backwards 3 steps, short walk (6 m), walk (30 m), sitting down
The mobility profile will be assessed from the same video recordings as above, at baseline (T0), within one month after basic course (T1) and within one month after advanced course (T2)

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