Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions
Objective: It is aimed to investigate the nursing competence and corresponding influence factors of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions of Tianjin and identify the training needs of caregivers. Methods: In the cross-section survey of this study, 246 dementia caregivers were selected f...
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| author | Yaxing Wang Yuqi Liu Junxiang Tian Mengya Jing Kesen Zhang |
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| description | Objective: It is aimed to investigate the nursing competence and corresponding influence factors of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions of Tianjin and identify the training needs of caregivers. Methods: In the cross-section survey of this study, 246 dementia caregivers were selected from 6 long-term care institutions in Tianjin as objects of study through convenient sampling. Results: The scores for nursing competence of dementia caregivers were 140.28 ± 7.73, at a moderate level. Study findings that nursing competence of dementia caregivers were positively associated with the work experience (β = 0.115,P = 0.005), educational level (β = 0.333,P < 0.01), pervdceived health status (β = 0.108,P = 0.003) and training times within 1 year (β = 0.371,P < 0.01). Through the analysis, it is found that the training needs of dementia caregivers are inconsistent with the current situation in terms of content, methods and teachers. There are some problems in the training, such as unreasonable time, single mode and not deepening the understanding of the elderly with dementia. Conclusion: Long term care institutions shall arrange training no less than 12 times a year and evaluate training needs regularly to improve training effect. Providing online and offline training and adding more specialized contents like case analysis, employing experts in the field of dementia to teach courses. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9b49d633dfc7499386102ec83fd062fb2022-12-21T19:29:10ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Nursing Sciences2352-01322020-04-0172198205Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutionsYaxing Wang0Yuqi Liu1Junxiang Tian2Mengya Jing3Kesen Zhang4School of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, ChinaSchool of Nursing, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, ChinaTianjin Nursing Society, Tianjin, China; Corresponding author.Objective: It is aimed to investigate the nursing competence and corresponding influence factors of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions of Tianjin and identify the training needs of caregivers. Methods: In the cross-section survey of this study, 246 dementia caregivers were selected from 6 long-term care institutions in Tianjin as objects of study through convenient sampling. Results: The scores for nursing competence of dementia caregivers were 140.28 ± 7.73, at a moderate level. Study findings that nursing competence of dementia caregivers were positively associated with the work experience (β = 0.115,P = 0.005), educational level (β = 0.333,P < 0.01), pervdceived health status (β = 0.108,P = 0.003) and training times within 1 year (β = 0.371,P < 0.01). Through the analysis, it is found that the training needs of dementia caregivers are inconsistent with the current situation in terms of content, methods and teachers. There are some problems in the training, such as unreasonable time, single mode and not deepening the understanding of the elderly with dementia. Conclusion: Long term care institutions shall arrange training no less than 12 times a year and evaluate training needs regularly to improve training effect. Providing online and offline training and adding more specialized contents like case analysis, employing experts in the field of dementia to teach courses.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352013220300417CaregiversDementiaNursing homesProfessional competenceTraining |
| spellingShingle | Yaxing Wang Yuqi Liu Junxiang Tian Mengya Jing Kesen Zhang Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions International Journal of Nursing Sciences Caregivers Dementia Nursing homes Professional competence Training |
| title | Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions |
| title_full | Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions |
| title_fullStr | Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions |
| title_short | Analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long-term care institutions |
| title_sort | analysis on nursing competence and training needs of dementia caregivers in long term care institutions |
| topic | Caregivers Dementia Nursing homes Professional competence Training |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352013220300417 |
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