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. 2024 Nov 12;16(22):3861. doi: 10.3390/nu16223861

Table 4.

Key informant perspectives and recommendations for educational material.

Type Positive Comments Challenges Identified Recommendations
Educational Video
  • Good overview

  • Use at team meetings, between shifts

  • Use in general orientation, annual training

  • 7 min too long

  • Omits information on fluid restriction

  • Feasibility affected by staff devices

  • Feasibility affected by paid time to complete

  • Split into 2 videos

  • Include further content (e.g., fluid restriction)

  • Add statistics to motivate

  • Make more interactive

Huddle
Discussions
  • Promote staff collaboration

  • Good range of topics

  • Interactive, fun elements and get staff thinking

  • Opportunity to individualize strategies to residents with checklist

  • Checklist on type of challenges for residents may not be feasible

  • Time to conduct huddles

  • Puts onus on individuals to reach all staff

  • Make concise

Posters
  • Concrete ideas

  • Practical

  • Eye-catching

  • Good variety

  • Reinforce learning

  • Could be used in a variety of places in the home

  • Staff posters have too much information

  • Requires work to change weekly if in multiple sites

  • Change colour for each topic

  • Add graphics, borders, statistics

  • Need new posters for main messages to be used after the campaign

  • Create a poster for use in resident room

  • Include motivating messages

Micro-videos
  • Short, flexible for use

  • Useful for team meetings, huddles, shift change

  • Good flow of topics

  • May not be useful for all staff; do not have email

  • Feasibility based on device availability, time to watch videos during shift

  • Improve terminology

  • Add details on thickened beverages

  • Provide detail on frequency of offers

Email pushes
  • Short reminder

  • Can text vs. email

  • prepare for huddle discussions

  • Staff may ignore

  • Lack of email access

  • Redundant messages

  • Not experiential

  • Text may be considered an invasion of privacy

  • Post on organizational websites

  • Use for leadership, add to a human resource email message

  • Include prompts to help staff empathize with residents

  • Offer a text version