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Table 3 Relationships between staff characteristics and question responses (n = 400)

From: Hearing and vision care provided to older people residing in care homes: a cross-sectional survey of care home staff

Relationships between variables

Job Role

Length of work

Care Home Type

Size of Care Home

Hearing

 Use of screening tools

0.000a

0.000a

0.005

0.099

 Annual professional assessment

0.000a

0.000a

0.002

0.014

 Recorded in care plan

0.029

0.378

0.937

0.181

 Access to quiet rooms

0.138

0.000a

0.387

0.058

 Aids checked regularly

0.338

0.000a

0.000a

0.829

 Access to other aids

0.000a

0.002

0.003

0.308

 Knowledge of different hearing problems

0.349

0.102

0.460

0.176

 Knowledge of identifying hearing loss

0.333

0.16

0.544

0.083

 Knowledge of identifying hearing loss in the cognitively impaired

0.201

0.152

0.995

0.012

 Knowledge of how to clean hearing aids

0.008

0.014

0.480

0.736

 Knowledge of how to communicate

0.114

0.067

0.000a

0.542

 Would like more information

0.078

0.071

0.003

0.244

 Family members assist

0.094

0.937

0.577

0.004

 Residents willing to use aid

0.003

0.07

0.000a

0.004

 Can residents take care of own aid

0.000a

0.1

0.000a

0.554

Vision

 Use of screening tools

0.000a

0.000a

0.153

0.311

 Annual professional assessment

0.000a

0.000a

0.133

0.073

 Recorded in care plan

0.214

0.047

0.930

0.655

 Environment well lit

0.265

0.010

0.652

0.002

 Environment adaptations

0.025

0.021

0.02

0.537

 Glasses labelled

0.003

0.000a

0.000a

0.063

 Glasses cleaned regularly

0.1

0.01

0.269

0.825

 Access to other aids

0.000a

0.000a

0.014

0.04

 Knowledge of different vision problems

0.000a

0.164

0.264

0.123

 Knowledge of identifying vision loss

0.414

0.232

0.721

0.311

 Knowledge of identifying vision loss in cognitively impaired

0.640

0.650

0.636

0.142

 Knowledge of how to clean glasses

0.003

0.013

0.005

0.194

 Knowledge of how to communicate

0.088

0.059

0.056

0.042

 Would like more information

0.264

0.716

0.265

0.177

 Family members assist

0.07

0.254

0.713

0.026

 Residents willing to use glasses

0.291

0.694

0.000a

0.106

  1. Key: asignificant relationships were found