A Correlational Study among Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice toward Physical Restraints in Intensive Care Units

• Main Authors: Heui-Jen Lee, 李慧真
• Other Authors: Shu-Lian Shen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08816037888180300070

碩士 === 輔英科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 93 === Abstract This is a cross-section descriptive correlation study. Objectives：The purpose of this study was to explore the nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and the preditors of physical restraints in intensive care units（ICUs）. Methods：Subjects were selected by purposive sampling from ICUs of four regional hospitals, and totally 181 questionnaires were completed. Measurements：Four instruments developed by the researcher conducted the study. They were “characteristic of environment data”, “Knowledge toward physical restraints”, “Attitudes toward physical restraints “and “Nursing practice of physical restraints”. Results：Nurses’ knowledge of physical restraints displayed a middle level in ICUs. The lowest correct response rate is 56.4％, which was the item of the indications of physical restraints. Nurses’ attitudes regarding physical restraints in ICUs, most support to maintain patients safety principle, most exhibit ambivalence emotional response, and most intentional to consider to use physical restraints, when patients or others had unsafe situation. Nurses’ behavior of physical restraints in ICUs, most focus nursing behavior than assessing behavior. Most units who have not to attach importance to physical restraints. There were positive relationships among nursing regulations and the assessing behavior, the nursing behavior . There were positive relationships among institutional policy and the assessing behavior. Nurse who have more nursing licenses, their score of indications of physical restraints is higher. Nurses who have religion, they practice appropriate assessing behavior. There were positive relationships among nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about physical restraints in ICUs. In multiple regression analysis found nursing regulations, type of nursing license, religion to be significantly associated to practice of physical restraints totally explained 17.5 %. Conclusions：This study’s results can be used as a reference for the future on education of nurses’ professional training, classroom teaching, and restraint handbook. This can also enhance the ability for nurses to solving patients’ problems, thus improve the quality of nursing care. Key words：knowledge toward physical restraints, attitudes toward physical restraints, practice of physical restraints.