A Study on the Care Ability/Capabilty,Caregiving Preparedness, and Self-efficacy on the Behavior and Psychiatric Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) – In case of Nursing Home Care Staff.

• Main Authors: HSIEH,JUI-LING, 謝瑞玲
• Other Authors: LEE,SHYH-DYE
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ym2z44

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 長期照護研究所 === 105 === Background: As the population aging more & more rapidly, the demented victims has been getting increased more complex, complicated, sophisticated individualizedly, and forming the barriers and difficulties of the care approaching, esp behavior and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD). Hence, it is important for the care-workers with their ability/capability to deal with the BPSD. Purposes: In order to realize the related ability or capability(competency or proficiency), even readiness and self-efficacy of BPSD among nursing home care-workers for the care receivers with dementia, we have conducted the study. Methods: The study be designed as the one with semi-qualitative & semi-quantitative approaches on some correlations in potential by structured questionnaire, and try to link together those among 107 participants, including basic information, care ability or capability on BPSD, rather, readiness/self-preparedness and self-efficacy, by description, correlation, trend and multiple regression approaches. Results: The study shows that 91.6﹪of nursing home care workers were female, with an average age of 38.6 (± 11.3), 59.8﹪owned college level education, in addition, possessing 2.1 ± 2.4 hours of BPSD specific continuous education just within one year before; nevertheless, safety environment organizing(4.3 ± 0.7) and physical needs(3.5 ± 0.6) both had higher handling capacity then; however, to avoid frustration (3.7 ± 0.7) increasing self-esteem helpful in the interaction, to a have a better awareness(3.4 ± 0.7) and good use of medical care resources (3.3 ± 0.7), and the agitation treatment (3.3 ± 0.9) less self-confidence; the number of participants in the relevant course (F = 24.04, p <.001) had better self-confidence in dealing with BPSD for elderly. Conclusions: Dementia referring to lots of domains complexly, their care ability/capability, caregiving preparedness, and self-efficacy with well correlated and interacted, Hence, related continuous re-education or nurturing, experience learning by sharing altogether, encouraging to provision of supporting group to the care workers, all are just mandatorily key factors to clustering of care ability/capability, caregiving preparedness, and self-efficacy on BPSD handling.