District nurses' attitudes towards involuntary treatment in dementia care at home: A cross-sectional study.

Autor: Moermans VRA; PhD - Student, Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Duboisdomein 30, Maastricht 6229 GT, The Netherlands; Regional Manager and Nurse Specialist, Department of Nursing, White and Yellow Cross Limburg, Genk, Belgium; Voluntary Scientific Assistant, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: v.moermans@maastrichtuniversity.nl., Bleijlevens MHC; Assistant Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands., Verbeek H; Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands., Passos VL; Associate Professor, Department Methodology and Statistics, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands., Milisen K; Professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium., Hamers JPH; Professor, Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) [Geriatr Nurs] 2022 Sep-Oct; Vol. 47, pp. 107-115. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jul 26.
DOI: 10.1016/j.gerinurse.2022.07.009
Abstrakt: One in two persons living with dementia (PLWD) at home receive care which they resist to and/or have not given consent to, defined as involuntary treatment. District nurses play a key role in the use of involuntary treatment. However, little is known how their attitudes and opinions influence the use of involuntary treatment. This cross-sectional study aims to investigate the attitudes of district nurses towards the use of involuntary treatment in dementia care at home, determinants and their opinion about its restrictiveness and discomfort. Results show that district nurses perceive involuntary treatment as regular part of nursing care, having neither positive nor negative attitude towards its appropriateness. They consider involuntary treatment usage as moderately restrictive to PLWD and feel moderately uncomfortable when using it. These findings underscore the need to increase the awareness of district nurses regarding the negative consequences of involuntary treatment use to PLWD at home.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None declared.
(Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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