Documentation of Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Care Facilities, New York City, 2009-2013 (ICPSR 35649)

Version Date: Jun 29, 2017

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Principal Investigator(s):
Mark Lachs, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Weill Cornell Medical College; Jeanne Teresi, Research Division, Hebrew Home at Riverdale

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35649.v1

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2010-2013 Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of Elderly Individuals and Individuals in Residential Care Facilities Program

Summary

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The purpose of this study was to investigate violence and aggression committed by nursing home residents that is directed toward other residents, referred to here as resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM). Resident-to-resident mistreatment (R-REM) was defined as: negative and aggressive physical, sexual, or verbal interactions between long term care residents, that in a community setting would likely be construed as unwelcome and have high potential to cause physical or psychological distress in the recipient.

The goals of this project were to: enhance institutional recognition of R-REM; examine the convergence of R-REM reports across different methodologies; identify the most accurate mechanism for detecting and reporting R-REM; develop profiles of persons involved with R-REM by reporting source; investigate existing R-REM policies, and; develop institutional guidelines for reporting R-REM episodes. Also, the project team sought to answer the following research questions: (1) Will the reporting of R-REM differ by source? (2) Which reporting methods will show the highest level of convergence and accuracy in reporting? (3) What resident characteristics or profiles will predict R-REM across the differing reporting sources? (4) What are the existing guidelines and/or institutional policies for reporting R-REM? To achieve these goals, the researcher conducted this study over a two week period in five urban and five suburban New York City facilities. Resident-to-resident abuse information was derived from five sources: (1) resident interviews (2) staff informants (3) observational data (behavior sheets) (4) resident chart reviews (5) incident and accident reports.

Citation

Lachs, Mark, and Teresi, Jeanne. Documentation of Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Care Facilities, New York City, 2009-2013. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-06-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35649.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (2009IJCX0001)

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

County

Restrictions

Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2009-07 -- 2013-03

Date of Collection

2009-07 -- 2013-03

Data Collection Notes

  1. These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.

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Study Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate violence and aggression committed by nursing home residents that is directed toward other residents, referred to here as resident-to-resident elder mistreatment (R-REM).

Study Design

This is an epidemiological prevalent cohort study with one wave of data collection. The parent study was conducted in five urban and five suburban nursing homes (N= 1405 urban residents; 441 suburban residents). Resident-to-resident abuse information was derived from residents, staff, observations, Incident and Accident reports and chart reviews. A prevalence period of two weeks was used for reporting purposes; one week before and after the prevalence period was allowed for case adjudication purposes using a gold standard consensus classification. The following items described how each data source was collected:

  • In the resident version, individual items relate to R-REM specific behaviors. For each behavior, residents are asked if the behavior ever occurred in the facility, if it occurred in the past year, and in the past two weeks. If it occurred in the past two weeks, the number of times this occurred, and how bothersome the most bothersome event was (not at all, a little, a lot) were recorded.
  • R-REM Staff Interview: a list of all potential R-REM behaviors is provided (via a handout) and the number of distinct incidents involving these behaviors is requested.For each incident (up to five), the behaviors involved, and where (e.g., dining area, hallway, resident's room) and when (e.g., morning, noon meal, afternoon) it occurred is recorded. In addition, who started the incident and a description of other participant(s) (sex and relationship) is recorded.
  • Behavior Sheets: these sheets were designed as prescription pads to be carried in the pockets of nursing staff. They were distributed at the module 3 training session; additional pads were available at the nursing station. Sheets could be torn off after documenting R-REM.
  • Accident and Incident Reports has information such as: the date and time the incident was discovered; who discovered the incident; how the incident was discovered; a description of the resident or residents involved and any relevant information regarding their condition (medical, psychological, behavioral, etc.) noted prior to the discovery of the incident.
  • Resident Chart Review: nursing, social service, and activities notes, as well as care planning conference reports (and any other relevant documentation) were reviewed for reports of occurrences of R-REM. In some instances the chart contained documentation of R-REM occurrences that do not reach the level of an accident/incident report. Residents' background data, health and mental health history, any history on behavioral disturbance was also collected.

Sample

Selection of Facilities: using the SPSS pseudo random number generator (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, 1997) procedure, six urban nursing homes were selected from among the population of 21 nursing homes with 250 or more beds in two urban regions: Manhattan and the Bronx. The nursing homes were selected from among this list to represent equally the two boroughs. Facilities with severe survey deficiencies were excluded. Agreement to participate was obtained from five of the six facilities, yielding a facility response rate of 83 percent.

Exclusion/Inclusion criteria for urban resident sample: a sample of short-stay rehabilitation residents was included for the purpose of the linked federal studies. All long-stay residents except those on hospice care were invited to participate. For residents who were unable to complete the consent process (due to e.g., cognitive impairment, language barrier, health impairment),consent was sought by designated proxies (families or legal guardians). Residents unable to respond (due to language other than English or Spanish, or impairment) were excluded from resident level measures; chart review, staff informant, and observational measures were performed on those families provided proxy consent. Including all residents who did not participate regardless of the reason in denominator, the overall response rate was 80.2%.

Exclusion/Inclusion criteria for suburban resident sample: similar to the urban sample, all long-stay residents (except those receiving hospice care) and a sample of short-stay were invited to participate. For residents who were unable to complete the consent process(due to e.g., cognitive impairment, language barrier, health impairment),consent was sought by designated proxies (families or legal guardians). Residents unable to respond (due to language other than English or Spanish, or impairment) were excluded from resident level measures; chart review, staff informant, and observational measures were performed on those families provided proxy consent. Including all residents who did not participate regardless of the reason (e.g., refusals, family refusals. sick in hospital) in denominator, the overall response rate was 58.4%.

Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Nursing home residents in suburban and urban New York City

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

Accident/incident reports

Direct observation

Chart reviews

Resident interviews

Staff interview

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

This data set contains 1075 variables and 1778 observations. The variables included:

  • Characteristics of the environment
  • Resident demographics
  • Determination of whether incidents qualified as resident-to-resident elder across each of the six sources
  • Most influential sources
  • Resident capacity
  • Type of equipment present in main public area
  • Lighting
  • Persons and number of person involved in incident
  • Classification of incident
  • Type of fall and assault
  • Location of incident
  • Incident outcome information
  • Resident injury
  • General background information, incident relation, and the event date
  • Incident/Trigger indication
  • Chart review indication, such as finding, chart section, and trigger date
  • Incident description information

Response Rates

The facility response rate was 83%. The urban resident sample response rate was 80.2%. The suburban resident sample response rate was 58.4%.

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Original Release Date

2017-06-29

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Lachs, Mark, and Jeanne Teresi. Documentation of Resident to Resident Elder Mistreatment in Residential Care Facilities, New York City, 2009-2013. ICPSR35649-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-06-29. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35649.v1

2017-06-29 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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Notes

  • These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompanying readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator(s) if further information is needed.

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