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KMID : 0379720170310030436
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2017 Volume.31 No. 3 p.436 ~ p.450
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Knowledge, Attitude and Prevention Activities related to fall among of Geriatric Hospital Nurse
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You Kwang-Soo
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is designed to identity the extent of geriatric hospital nurse’s knowledge attitude and fall prevention activities toward falls, thereby identifying the relationship between them.
Methods: Knowledge of the falls targeting 350 people who work in the nurse elderly hospital, located at J city, attitudes about fall prevention activity data were collected for nurses working in the geriatric hospital. The collected data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheff’s test, correlation coefficients.
Results: Attitude and prevention activities of fall showed that there is a correlation. Showed that age was a significant effect on falls prevention activities age 45 years and olde and attitude. The higher the fall prevention activities were found to be low.
Conclusion: In relationship between knowledge, attitudes and prevention activities regarding falls, knowledge about falls had no correlation with attitude and prevention activities and a correlation was found between attitudes and prevention activity regarding falls. Accordingly, it is required to implement training program to improve nurse’s attitude to falls, and
repetitive fall prevention training and education is expected to contribute to increasing the practice of fall prevention activity.
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KEYWORD
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Fall, Knowledge, Attitude, Prevention activity, Geriatric hospital nurse
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