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Table 1 Definitions of QuIS categories from Dean et al 1993

From: Reliability, feasibility, and validity of the quality of interactions schedule (QuIS) in acute hospital care: an observational study

Positive social

Interaction principally involving ‘good, constructive, beneficial’ conversation and companionship

Positive Care

Interactions during the appropriate delivery of physical care

Neutral

Brief, indifferent interactions not meeting the definitions of the other categories

Negative protective

Providing care, keeping safe or removing from danger, but in a restrictive manner, without explanation or reassurance: in a way which disregards dignity or fails to demonstrate respect for the individual

Negative restrictive

Interactions that oppose or resist peoples’ freedom of action without good reason, or which ignore them as a person