2019 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 11-18
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational program named "Care for dementia patients focusing on the viewpoint of elderly patients" for consenting nurses in general wards in the acute care hospital. This program is based on common ideas and skills among person-centered care, humanitude, and tactile care, and set the principal of "Respecting patients and being close to them." We divided participants into intervention and control groups by ward. Participants of the intervention group underwent the educational program using a paper sheet and a DVD, and provided care to their patients based on this program for three months. Control group provided usual care to their patients for three months. All participants responded questionnaires at baseline and after three months. We analyzed the change scores in difficulties consisted of five factors of nurses in caring symptoms related to dementia.
Twenty-six nurses in control group (response rate, 68.4%), and thirty-nine in intervention group (response rate, 97.5%) were analyzed. In the change scores of "feeling of difficulty in treating agitated and hyperkinetic behaviors," intervention group significantly decreased than control group (median of intervention group, -5.0; median of control group, 0.9; p=0.03). Then, it is suggested that this educational program is effective in reducing "feeling of difficulty in treating agitated and hyperkinetic behaviors".
