2.1. Design and Participants

This study was conducted in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. An ad hoc cross-sectional questionnaire was administered in 10 residential nursing homes for older persons, two in each of the region’s five provinces—the total number of nursing homes in this autonomous community is 216. The research team explained the questionnaire to representatives of staff and managers in meetings. These meetings were done before the collection of the data, explaining the questionnaire, the objective of the study and the importance of the participation. The questionnaire was answered by 256 workers of different professional categories (see the Appendix A for the questionnaire): management, administration, health care, social care and maintenance. Each participant answered individually the questionnaire in printed form—anonymously—and then they sent the answer by postal mail. We obtained a response rate of 64% of the workers and they represented an 8% of the nursing homes workers of the region. The questionnaire was divided into three blocks across 39 items. The first block gathered data on sociodemographic variables, the second covered training-related aspects, while the third block contained questions about job satisfaction. Our fieldwork was carried out from February to May 2017.