Table 3.
Motivation to Continue the Intervention Program among Home Care Clients and Home Care Aides: Motivation Score, Motivators, and Barriers
| Reported by | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family Dyads (N = 18) |
Nonfamily Dyads (N = 32) |
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| Themes and Characteristics | Client | HCA | Client | HCA |
| Motivation score (0–10 scale) | ||||
| Mean (standard deviation) | 7 (3.5) | 8.5 (2.3) | 7.9 (2.6) | 8.1 (3.1) |
| Mode (%) | 10 (44.4) | 10 (66.7) | 10 (48.4) | 10 (62.5) |
| Motivators | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) |
| Client benefits from the program | 11 (61) | 7 (50) | 23 (74) | 11 (52) |
| Exercise is good for clients/older adults | 9 (50) | 4 (29) | 12 (39) | 1 (5) |
| The program is not difficult | 1 (6) | 0 | 2 (6) | 1 (5) |
| HCA benefits from the program | 0 | 3 (21) | 0 | 7 (33) |
| Barriers | ||||
| Client lacks motivation to exercise | 2 (11) | 3 (21) | 4 (13) | 2 (10) |
| Client prefers other physical activities | 3 (17) | 0 | 2 (6) | 0 |
| Client’s physical conditions are barriers | 0 | 0 | 3 (10) | 0 |
| HCA lacks motivation to continue the program | 0 | 1 (7) | 0 | 1 (5) |
| Sample size (response rate %)* | ||||
| Quantitative motivation score | 18 (100) | 15 (83)† | 31 (97)‡ | 24 (75)§ |
| Qualitative data (motivators and barriers) | 18 (100) | 14 (78)† | 31 (97)‡ | 21 (66)§ |
Notes: Data came from face-to-face interviews with home care clients and self-administered surveys of home care aides (HCAs) conducted after the 4-month intervention. HCAs were asked to assess the level of motivation to continue the program with each of the participating clients. Follow-up open-ended questions provided an opportunity for each respondent to provide reasons for his or her motivation score. Brief comments provided by each respondent were coded. Each participant is represented in up to two themes.
*The response rate was computed by dividing the number of responses by the number of family or nonfamily dyads included in this study.
†Of the 18 family dyads, 3 HCAs did not provide their motivational scores, because they did not attend the follow-up survey (N = 1) or skipped the specific item (N = 2).
‡Of the 32 nonfamily dyads, one client skipped the motivation-related items.
§Of the 32 nonfamily dyads, quantitative motivation scores were missing for 8 HCAs, because they did not participate in the follow-up survey (N = 4, including 1 HCA who cared for 2 clients) or because they skipped the motivation-related items (N = 3). Qualitative data were missing for additional 3 HCAs because they skipped the open-ended question.