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Long‐term care personnel assess their attitudes and knowledge of the older adult
Author(s) -
Huber Margie,
Reno Beverly,
McKenney James
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb02046.x
Subject(s) - long term care , test (biology) , aged care , psychology , medicine , job satisfaction , gerontology , set (abstract data type) , positive attitude , family medicine , nursing , social psychology , paleontology , computer science , biology , programming language
The purpose of this study was to compare long‐term care employees’ attitude and knowledge about myths of ageing and normal age changes, before and after exposure to formal educational sessions The researchers investigated if there was a difference in knowledge level and change in attitudes of long‐term care employees after educational sessions The subjects for this study were denned as persons who had any contact with the residents at St Charles Care Center The final data set used in the analysis contained 84 observations Each participant attended three 1‐hour classes which consisted of simulation of handicaps, normal age‐related changes, and myths and realities of ageing Overall, there was a significant increase in knowledge from the pre‐test to the post‐test The study also tested for a negative (anti‐aged) bias attitude and a positive (falsely proaged) bias attitude among the individuals At the end of the study there was still a slight negative biased attitude towards ageing The data suggest that continuing education is an effective means of influencing the knowledge and attitudes of personnel in long‐term care facilities Recommendation for future research should be that this study be replicated in another long‐term care facility with the addition of a job satisfaction tool