Three items could not be included in any scale: satisfaction with the frequency with which professionals visited the care recipient; satisfaction with the promptness of services; and a general rating of the care provided.
Satisfaction with the degree to which care was provided according to the need for care of the recipients increased, while satisfaction with the degree to which professionals provided help with administrative tasks, the understandability of the information provided and the degree to which informal caregivers knew which professionals to call, decreased.
Data users and recipients all indicated satisfaction with this turnaround time, and immunization reports are received on time by the MOHLTC.
Furthermore, recipients with high satisfaction with overall food intake (OR 0.46 (95% CI 0.27 to 0.78)), high perceived healthiness of overall food intake (OR 0.34 (95% CI 0.19 to 0.62)) or high self-efficacy of eating healthy (OR 0.62 (95% CI 0.40 to 0.96)) were less likely to experience very low food security.
However, agreement between donor and recipient on overall satisfaction was poor (P >0.05).
Dr. Jankovic is the recipient of the Patient Satisfaction Survey Award for outstanding performance and she and her team received the Gordon award for exceptional patient satisfaction and service.
These customized reports mitigate problems of information overload, as well as increasing the satisfaction of the recipients with the participatory process.
In conclusion our results suggest that PTSS are strongly associated with massive additional impairments of HRQOL and life satisfaction in SOT recipients.
It has been shown that the satisfaction of the recipients was mainly dependent on the quality and quantity of information given by the consultant, and that the evaluation of coping strategies of recipients was essential to minimize emotional consequences.
The utilisation of a case management model approach in frailty research, particularly one that incorporates family orientated case management, has proven effective in improving frail older care recipients' health, functional ability and satisfaction, and in reducing institutionalisation [ 37].
