| Summary: | 碩士 === 中臺科技大學 === 護理系碩士班 === 103 === A study on knowledge, attitude and behavior of caring perineal dermatitis among nurse aides in long-term care institutions
Abstract
As times and family structures changed, the ratio of elder residents is increasing year by year. The incontinence of urine and stool is a common problem of the elderly in long-term care institutions. It is easy to induce a perineal dermatitis (PD). If there is no appropriate preventive intervention, it will make the elderly get pain and discomfort. The purpose of this study is to explore the knowledge, attitudes, behavior and the relationships of caring PD among nurse aides in long-term care institutions. The study is a cross-sectional design to carry out random sampling. The subjects are recruited from 116 long-term care institutions in Taichung. Twenty two institutions were elicited. The 229 questionnaires were sent and 204 valid copies were received. The valid recovery rate of questionnaires was 89.08%. A structural questionnaire developed by researcher was made including the demographic data, as well as the knowledge, attitude and behavior of caring PD. The data analyzed with SPSS 19.0 for Windows software were performed descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the study was shown that (1)The degree of knowledge of caring PD among nurse aides was moderate. The caring knowledge had significant differences with age, education, work years of nurse aides, accepting the PD curriculum, and agency appraisal (p< .05). (2)The degree of caring attitudes was above moderate and the aspect of feelings tended to negative. (3)The caring behavior was positive degree between the implementation of the “often” and “always”. The caring behavior of nurse aides with receiving the PD related courses was better than those who did not receive. The behavior of caring PD among nurse aides working in the excellent appraisal agency was better than those who worked in the B appraisal facility. (4)The relationship of caring knowledge and behavior was lowly positive correlation. (5)The relationship of caring attitude and behavior was moderately positive correlation. These results in this study provide to make a reference for planning the future in-service education for nurse aides in long-term care institutions to increase the quality care.
Keywords: nurse aides, long-term care institutions, perineal dermatitis, knowledge, attitude, behavior
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