Table 1 Definitions of QuIS categories [2]
From: Inter-rater reliability of the QuIS as an assessment of the quality of staff-inpatient interactions
CATEGORY | Explanation |
|---|---|
Positive social (+s) | Interaction principally involving ‘good, constructive, beneficial’ conversation and companionship. |
Positive Care (+c) | Interactions during the appropriate delivery of physical care. |
Neutral (N) | Brief, indifferent interactions not meeting the definitions of the other categories. |
Negative protective (−p) | 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 (−r) | Interactions that oppose or resist peoples’ freedom of action without good reason, or which ignore them as a person. |