Open AccessIdentification of Fall Risks by Nurses in Hospitalized Adult Patients
Author(s) -
Z. Slezakova,
J. Kristova,
E. Miklovicova,
Z. Bachrata
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical social work journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2222-386X
pISSN - 2076-9741
DOI - 10.22359/cswhi_12_3_12
Subject(s) - falling (accident) , respondent , mann–whitney u test , medicine , statistical significance , test (biology) , demography , psychology , physical therapy , psychiatry , paleontology , sociology , political science , law , biology
The aim of this study was to provide a nurses' comparison of fall risks in hospitalized adults according to gender, age and clinic, and to identify significant risk factors associated with the specific levels of the risk of falling. The respondent group consisted of patients hospitalized in selected hospital wards. Morse Fall Scale was used to map the data. We tested the statistical significance of differences among categories by using the chí2 test, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test. The average risk score of falling in a group of 688 patients was at a high level 47.87 ± 26.4. In the group of 430 elderly patients, we found significantly higher average values than in the group of 258 patients younger than 65 years (p = < 0.00001).Patients hospitalized in the geriatric ward had the highest average Morse Fall Scale values (55.3 ± 26.11). The results of our study confirmed the risk of falling in selected groups of patients.