Nursing Home Staff Perspectives on Digital Communication with General Practitioners

Interview transcripts and thematic analysis from 13 nursing home employees in Germany, exploring communication issues with General Practitioners and attitudes towards digital solutions. The qualitative study was conducted by Kathleen Denny between January 2020 and April 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze interview themes on interprofessional communication problems, such as limited direct contact and technical barriers, to identify pain points in care coordination.
• Train text classification models to categorize participant suggestions for improving communication, focusing on proposed digital options.
• Extract sentiment and perspectives on digital tool adoption from verbatim transcripts to gauge staff openness and perceived benefits.
• Use thematic codes derived from paradox theory to model communication tensions and solution strategies in healthcare management studies.

Strengths

• 13 in-depth interview transcripts provide detailed qualitative insights.
• Data collection spanned over two years, from January 2020 to April 2022.
• Analysis followed established COREQ guidelines for qualitative research reporting.

Limitations

• Small sample size of 13 participants limits statistical generalizability.
• Data is geographically limited to seven nursing homes in Germany.
• The dataset is 979.1 KB, containing only textual documents (DOCX, PDF) without structured, machine-readable data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Kathleen Denny.

Collection Method

Semi-structured interviews, transcribed verbatim and analyzed thematically using paradox theory.

Time Range

January 2020 to April 2022.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Germany.