A majority of aged-care staff rated translation apps useful (18 of 24, 75%)
Source
Hwang (2022). Testing the use of translation apps to overcome everyday healthcare communication in Australian aged-care hospital wards-An exploratory study. Nursing Open.
Description #
On the end-of-trial staff survey, a majority of respondents rated the translation apps useful: 18 of 24 (75%) rated them very, moderately, or slightly useful, while half (12/24, 50%) found the apps moderately easy to use (Table 1). This indicates broad staff-perceived acceptability of the apps for everyday ward communication.
"A majority of staff found the translation apps useful (18/24, 75%)." (Hwang, 2022, p. 581)
"with most finding the translation apps moderately easy to use (12/24, 50%)." (Hwang, 2022, p. 581)
Methods Context #
What? #ⓘ
The observable: staff-rated usefulness and ease of use of the translation apps, recorded on ordinal survey scales (very / moderately / slightly useful / not useful; very easy → very difficult).
"measuring their experience of using the translation app" (Hwang, 2022, p. 580)
How? #ⓘ
A self-report staff survey administered at the end of the two-month app trial, summarized with descriptive statistics in SPSS.
"Categorical and numerical data from the surveys and observations were collated using descriptive statistics using SPSS v25 (IBM Corp)." (Hwang, 2022, p. 580)
Who? #ⓘ
The 24 nursing and allied health staff across four aged-care hospital wards at three Melbourne hospital sites who completed the survey; usefulness had 1 missing and ease-of-use 2 missing responses.
"Twenty-four nursing and allied health staff across the four wards completed the staff survey." (Hwang, 2022, p. 581)
Other Notes #
Usefulness is a staff-perception measure, not a patient-outcome measure; the study did not directly capture patients' perceptions.