Publications by authors named "Esther E Kuis"
Background: Care ethical theories provide an excellent opening for evaluation of healthcare practices since searching for (moments of) good care from a moral perspective is central to care ethics. However, a fruitful way to translate care ethical insights into measurable criteria and how to measure these criteria has as yet been unexplored: this study describes one of the first attempts.
Objective: To investigate whether the emotional touchpoint method is suitable for evaluating care from a care ethical perspective.
Background: The concept of 'presence' appears frequently in the literature and seems to be a highly relevant concept in discussing and evaluating quality of relations in healthcare practices. However, no existing self-report measure of presence for health professionals was found.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was (i) to develop a self-report questionnaire for measuring presence and (ii) to conduct initial psychometric testing of the questionnaire.
Background: Ethics-of-care theories contain important notions regarding the quality of care; however, until now, concrete translations of the insights into instruments are lacking. This may be a result of the completely different type of epistemology, theories and concepts used in the field of quality of care research.
Objectives: Both the fields of 'ethics of care' and 'quality of care' aim for improvement of care; therefore; insights could possibly meet by focusing on the following question: How could ethics-of-care theories contribute to better quality in care at a measurement level? This study reviews existing instruments with the aim of bridging this gap and examines the evidence of their psychometric properties, feasibility and responsiveness.