The effect of an animation movie for inpatient fall prevention: a pilot study in an acute hospital

Autor: Kazunori Nakamura, Kumiko Fujinaga, Akiko Batard, Norio Baba, Etsuko Nakagami-Yamaguchi, Kyoko Miyazaki, Tatsuya Nakatani, Mikio Sugiura, Mayumi Mukai
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Safety in Health. 2
ISSN: 2056-5917
Popis: In this study, we developed an animated movie as a novel educational tool for fall prevention, and intended for patients and caregivers. We evaluated this new animation, comparing its effectiveness both before and after intervention, and have discussed its potential in the context of inpatient fall prevention. While including previously implemented multidisciplinary fall prevention measures, we started to introduce the use of animation in August 2013. Pre-and post-intervention questionnaire surveys were conducted for patients and nurses in June and August 2013, respectively, for 2 weeks. We obtained 304 and 269 paired data in the pre-and post- intervention survey periods. On examining the difference between nurses’ instructions and patients’ understanding, in the pre-intervention period, only 70.0 % of patients instructed to call the nurses at any time and 33.3 % of those instructed to call at the time of need, correctly understood the instructions. The frequency of patients’ falls significantly decreased from 15.6 to 8.6 % (p
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