Experiences of informal caregivers of people with dementia with nursing care in acute hospitals: A descriptive mixed-methods study.

The sample was a convenience sample, and the hospital-care findings rest on 129 caregivers, while 396 completed the questionnaire. The questionnaire was not validated, and it did not cover communication and hospital environment well enough for full quantitative comparison. The qualitative part was small: six focus-group participants and five interviewees, and some interviews were emotional, which may have affected the accounts. Caregivers were not always present, and answers contained 3% to 19% 'I don't know', so some nurse behaviours may not have been observed. The hospital environment theme had no quantitative data because the analysis framework was added after the questionnaire. The data were collected before COVID-19 and in one country, so transferability is limited. There were no comparison groups or objective nursing records, so this describes caregiver perceptions rather than measured nursing performance.

The paper does not report funding or conflict-of-interest declarations; it does report collaboration with Alzheimer Nederland in recruitment, questionnaire development and the focus group.

Do not conclude that nurses generally fail to provide person-centred care. These are self-selected caregiver reports from a convenience sample, with positive and negative accounts, and many 'I don't know' answers.