Themes | Items | Coefficients | Communalities | ||
Component 1 | Component 2 | Component 3 | |||
Theme ‘attention to person-centred care’. | 1.The caregiver knows the care users and their wishes and needs | 0.173 | 0.642 | 0.019 | 0.528 |
2.Care users manage their own lives within their means | −0.071 | 0.801 | 0.124 | 0.662 | |
3.Care users experience proximity, security, trust and understanding. They are treated with respect. | −0.023 | 0.844 | −0.077 | 0.676 | |
Theme ‘working towards sufficient and competent care staff’ | 4.Caregivers make professional assessments about the care and support required based on the identified risks, wishes, needs, possibilities and limitations of the care users. | 0.027 | 0.114 | 0.814 | 0.741 |
5.Caregivers work methodically. They document this elaborate process in the care user files of the care users living in the long-term care (LTC) home. | 0.012 | −0.061 | 0.898 | 0.792 | |
Theme ‘focussing on quality and safety’ | 6.The care organisation ensures that sufficient expert caregivers are available, geared to the care users’ present and their current care needs. | 0.747 | 0.145 | −0.078 | 0.604 |
7.The care organisation systematically monitors, controls and improves the quality and safety of care. | 0.859 | −0.123 | 0.071 | 0.733 | |
8.The care organisation creates the conditions for a culture focused on learning and improvement in the LTC | 0.792 | 0.011 | 0.063 | 0.681 |
Note: Scores were dichotomised as: 0 = ‘does not meet the standard’ or ‘largely does not meet the standard’ or 1 = ‘largely meets the standard’ or ‘meets the standard’.
Note: In bold the highest loading for each item