Survey about adult day centres and related priorities

From Applied Research Collaboration South London

Link to survey

We would like to know your views about what is important with respect to adult day centres. We want our programme of work to be of practical use in social care. We are asking people who may have experience of day centres – either through work or otherwise – and to give us their views by completing this survey

Part of our Setting And Responding to Priorities (SARP) study, this survey is to gather views about priorities for action, development and research with respect to adult day centres. Your completed survey will steer our social care studies which are funded by the NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London programme.

The survey has 18 questions split into four sections (A-D). First, we check whether you fall within our ‘day centre stakeholder’ group (have/had any link with or expertise in day centres in any capacity (including 'experts by experience' e.g. of attending or caring for someone who attends/s one, volunteering at one) or work on the topic of day centres or be south London based, and be aged 16 or older). Second, we ask your views on priorities and gaps already identified and their importance. Third, we ask your views and suggestions on priorities for action, development and research. Finally, we ask which category of ‘day centre stakeholder’ describes you best and how you found out about this survey. Some questions are optional.

All responses will be anonymous or will be anonymised. We will only ask which category of respondent you fall into. If you provide your name and contact details, we will select an appropriate category and will not retain your personal information alongside your response. We will understand your response as your consent to participate in this survey. Once submitted, your response cannot be withdrawn because responses are anonymous. We may report identified themes and respondent categories, but nothing will be personally identifiable. This survey gives you the opportunity to tell us about your perspectives and insights about day centres; we do not envisage any risks associated with completing it. We will store responses within King’s College London on password-protected computers/servers and locked filing cabinets in restricted access offices. All data we collect will be processed under the terms of UK data protection law (including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018), will not be publicly accessible, and will be destroyed 5 years after the end date of our study (end of August 2024). King’s College London University has approved this survey (Ethical Registration Number MRA-20/21-23389). For complaints, please contact King's College London’s Research Ethics Committee Chair (rec@kcl.ac.uk, 020 7848 4020/70/77).

Please contact Katharine.Orellana@kcl.ac.uk if you are interested in completing this survey but have unanswered questions. In responding to our survey questions, please think more broadly than Covid-19 related matters (beyond post-pandemic priorities) and from any perspective (e.g. day centre attenders, family carers, volunteers, staff, day centre providers, commissioners, social workers, occupational therapists, social prescribers and others).

Many thanks for taking the time to support our work by sharing your views.

12:36, 26 Jul 2021 by Jo Maye