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Table 2 Interview guide

From: React and act: a qualitative study of how nursing home leaders follow up on staff-to-resident abuse

Topic

Key questions

Introduction

Can you describe what you will define as abuse and neglect in nursing homes?

Your experiences of elder abuse and neglect

Within these situations (Fig. 1), and these categories; physical abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse, sexual abuse and neglect, can you describe your experience of elder abuse and neglect?

Communication of elder abuse and neglect

Can you describe how you get knowledge about situations of elder abuse and neglect in the nursing home?

What do you think are barriers and enablers to reporting elder abuse and neglect?

How to follow up on elder abuse and neglect

When you get knowledge about situations of elder abuse and neglect, how do you follow it up?

What do you do to prevent it from happening again?

Closure

Do you have anything to add that has not yet been mentioned?

How did you experience participating in this focus group?

  1. Note: The results from the topic 1 ‘Experience of elder abuse ‘is published with data from focus group interviews with care managers