As for domestic studies, there have been studying on restraints realities, recognitions and attitudes but it is insufficient to study on knowledge, recognition and attitude and nursing performances about physical restraints.
The purpose of this study is to confirm the influences on knowledge, recognition and attitude and nursing performances about physical restraints of illness caregivers who use restraining bands and hospitals do not perform restraining. Especially, it is tried to contribute to enhance the quality of nursing for geriatric hospital patients by searching effective and proper methods for nursing intervention of caregivers in geriatric hospitals to decrease physical decrease by comparing nursing performance ability, knowledge, attitude, recognition about physical restraints of nursing caregivers in comparison of hospitals to use physical restraints and never use.
The concrete purposes are as following:
1) It would be compared the nursing performance ability, knowledge, attitude, recognition about physical restraints according to demographic characteristics.
2) It would be comprehended the correlation of nursing performance ability, knowledge, attitude, recognition about physical restraints.
3) It would be comprehended the factors to have influences on nursing performance ability of physical restraints.
The total six geriatric hospitals located in northern area in Gyeongbuk province were selected each three hospitals which use restraining band and do not use on the basis of current no-physical restraining band due to random sampling. After explaining the purpose of the study to the each 150 caregivers who agreed to study participation among caregivers who are working for the hospitals in the present, they reported by using questionnaires. Total 285 questionnaires, 157 nurses and 128 nurse aids among those distributed 300 questionnaires, were collected and total 260 questionnaires which excluded incomplete answers such as questionnaires etc were used to final analysis.
This study is the descriptive comparative study to investigate knowledge, recognition and attitude, nursing performance ability on physical restraints of caregivers in convalescent hospitals. The data was collected after receiving approval of IRB(Institutional Bioethics Committee) of K University (IRB. NO: KNU 2016-0047). The data was collected after explaining the purpose and contents of the study by visiting the target hospitals for this study. And the study participants, nurses and nurse aids, were who understood the study purpose and agreed to participate in the study. Those collected data was analyzed by using SPSS WIN 21.0 program. The concrete data analysis methods are as following:
As for the demographic characteristics of study participants, it was analyzed due to real numbers and percentage, and as for comparing recognition, knowledge, attitude and nursing performance ability on physical restraining of caregivers, it was used t-test and ANOVA. As for the correction between recognition, knowledge, attitude and nursing performance ability on physical restraining, it was analyzed by Person Correlation Coefficient, and the factors to have influence on nursing performance ability were analyzed by multiple regression analysis.
The results of this study are as following: The score of knowledge of caregivers in the hospitals without restraining with physical restraining guidance and education was higher than the caregivers of the hospitals with restraining and the attitudes were negative and the recognitions were lower, and the nursing performance abilities were higher. As the knowledge higher, the higher nursing performance ability and less usage of restraining band. In addition, it was effective to give clear physical guidance and education to use restraining band increased the knowledge about restraining band usage and changed the attitude toward restraining band usage and enhanced nursing performance ability.