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Effect of Designed Nursing Instructions on Knowledge and Attitude of Elderly Care Nurses’ and Assessment of Senior Friendly Hospital Criteria

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Last updated: 15 Feb 2025

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Background: A senior-friendly hospital focuses on providing geriatric care through support and responds to a senior's physical and cognitive needs and develops knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses and other health professionals to be fully maximum in their care. Aim: Evaluate the effect of designed nursing instructions on the knowledge and attitude of elderly Care nurses and assessment of senior-friendly Hospital criteria. Research design: One group pre-posttest quasi-experimental Setting: The study was conducted at the Cardiac and Digestive System Center in Sohag City. Sample: A simple random sample of 42 nurses was included. Data collection tools were Tool (I): Structured interview questionnaire about personal data and work-related factors. Tool (II): Knowledge assessment questionnaire. Tool (III): Multifactorial attitude of health care professionals toward older people questionnaire, Tool (IV): Senior-friendly hospital criteria checklist. Results: The mean scores of participants' knowledge and attitude regarding elderly care had a high statistically significant difference (t = 29.806, p = 0.001) in pre- and post-training programs. More than half (59.5%) of the participant nurses precepted their hospital as a senior-friendly hospital with a strong positive significant relation between knowledge and participant nurses' perception of senior-friendly hospital criteria (r=0.575, p=0.002). Conclusion: The application of designed nursing instructions is highly effective in improving the knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding care of elders, which enhances the hospital's chance to be a senior-friendly hospital. Recommendations Hospital managers should set a hospital policy on adherence to senior-friendly hospital criteria and training for all health professionals for providing elders' care.

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10.21608/sjns.2025.355876.1066

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Attitude, Knowledge, Nursing Instructions, and older, Senior-friendly hospital

Authors

First Name

Esteer

Last Name

Ghayth

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Geriatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt

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dr.esteeribrahim@yahoo.com

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First Name

Martha

Last Name

Labieb

MiddleName

Melek

Affiliation

Lecturer of Gerontological Nursing Faculty of Nursing -Assuit University

Email

martha@aun.edu.eg

City

Assuit

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First Name

Sana

Last Name

Abdel-Aal Hassan

MiddleName

Ramadan

Affiliation

Director Nurse at Cardiac and Digestive System Center, Sohag City

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sanaa_ramadan@yahoo.com

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sohag

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First Name

Hind

Last Name

Ali

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I

Affiliation

Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University, Egypt & Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences in Wadi Addawasir, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, KSA

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hindismail101@gmail.com

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0000-0002-8782-9078

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4

Article Issue

6

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51522

Issue Date

2025-01-01

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2025-01-27

Publish Date

2025-01-01

Page Start

181

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192

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2974-3206

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2974-3214

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SJNS_Volume 4_Issue 6_Pages 181-192.pdf

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Sohag Journal of Nursing Science

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Effect of Designed Nursing Instructions on Knowledge and Attitude of Elderly Care Nurses’ and Assessment of Senior Friendly Hospital Criteria

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15 Feb 2025