NURSES' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND CLINICAL PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT USE WITH INTRODUCTION OF AN IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN AN ACUTE GERIATRIC SETTING

THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXAMINE THE NURSES? KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND CLINICAL PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT USE AMONG THE ELDERLY, AND TO DEVELOP AND TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF AN IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON RESTRAINT USE. A TWO PHASES STUDY WAS CONDUCTED INCLUDING A CROSS-SECTIONAL DESCRIPTIVE CORRELATIONAL STUDY (PHASE I) AND A PILOT QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL, PRETEST-POSTTEST CONTROL GROUP STUDY (PHASE II). A CONVENIENCE SAMPLE OF 116 NURSES FROM THREE GENERAL GERIATRIC WARDS WAS RECRUITED FOR PHASE I STUDY WHILE 40 NURSES FROM TWO WARDS WERE RECRUITED FOR PHASE II. THREE INSTRUMENTS NAMELY KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT USE SCALE, ATTITUDES OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT USE SCALE AND THE PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT USE SCALE WERE USED. SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE DIFFERENCE WAS FOUND IN NURSES? PRACTICE BETWEEN THE PRE-TEST AND POST-TEST INTERVENTION GROUP (P = 0.009). THE IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMME DEEMED TO HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT ON NURSES? KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND CLINICAL PRACTICE OF PHYSICAL

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• TANG WING SZE

• nurses, knowledge, attitudes, practice, education, geriatric