The Caregiver’s Recognition, Attitude and Nursing Practice Related to Physical Restraint in Geriatric Hospital
AUTHORS
Sun-Joo Jang,Dept. Nursing Science, Nambu Univ., Chumdan jungangro 23, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, Korea
Bong-Sil Choi,Dept. Nursing Science, Nambu Univ., Chumdan jungangro 23, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, Korea
ABSTRACT
This is a descriptive study of physical restraints for caregivers in geriatric hospital and by confirming the correlation of their recognition, attitude and nursing practice related to physical restraint. Findings indicated that the mean scores of recognition, attitude and nursing practice toward the use of physical restraint were 3.60, 3.89, 2.62. It was found that the nursing practice toward the use of physical restraint had a significant correlation with the recognition (r=.19, p=.016) and attitude (r=.22, p=.005) toward the use of physical restraint, and also the recognition toward the use of physical restraint had a significant correlation with the attitude toward the use of physical restraint (r=.27, p=.000).
KEYWORDS
Physical restrain, Caregivers, Physical restraint, Recognition, Attitude, Nursing practice.
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