| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 護理學系 === 103 === The aim of the study was to explore the influential factors on
neurology nurses’ knowledge, attitude and nursing interventions in
regarding for epilepsy patients’ depression. A descriptive correlational
design was applied in the study. Across six different neurological units
in three branch hospitals of a medical university hospital which located at
the northern part of Taiwan were the investigation site of the study. One
hundred and seventeen nurses with at least three months clinical practice
participated in this research. To collect the data, a questionnaire
developed by the investigators was administered.
The outcomes of the study were as follow: 1. Neurology nurses had
median level of depression knowledge and leaned positive attitude toward
epileptic patient with depression. The frequency of proper nursing
intervention for those patients was “Often”. 2. The nurses who had
caring experience of epilepsy patients with depression had significantly
more knowledge (t=2.04, p<0.01) than those who had not. 3. The
attitude of the nurses who took depression classes or other relative classes
from their on-job training was significantly more positive than those who
did not (t=2.13, p<0.05). 4. The relationships among depression
knowledge, attitude and intervention were all significantly positive (r =
0.363, 0.479 and 0.412 perspective; all p<0.01). 5. Depression
intervention could strongly be predict by knowledge and attitude (F=23.8,
p<0.01) and 29.5% variance was explained.
The results are expected to develop the nursing education programs
for the in-service training in neurological units. While the neurology
nurses have further knowledge and more positive attitude toward epilepsy
patients with depression, the patients would be able to receive the better
quality of nursing care.
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