Selda Arslan
Selcuk University, Turkey
Title: Nurse' information, attitudes and practices towards physical restraınt in intensive care units
Biography
Biography: Selda Arslan
Abstract
Background:The study was performed to determine nurses’ information, attitude and practice levels on using physical restraint in intensive care units as an important modality arising physical, psyschological, social and judicial results.
Aim: Working in ICUs, 158 nurses constituted the sampling. “Levels of Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Staff Regarding Physical Restraints Questionnaire” was used to collect data.
Methods: Findings were presented as number, percentage and average, and t test, one-way variance and correlation analyses were used for independent variables.
Results: For information, attitude and practice scores, participants’ scores were 7.1±1.7, 31.8±4.6 and 36.6±3.2, respectively. No association was found between information subscale, and age, professional years, working time in ICUs and weekly working hours (p>0.05). However, for attitute subscale, a negative and weak association was found between age (r=-0.229) and professional years (r=-0.174 ), and increasing these variables decreased attitude score (p<0.05). No association was found between attitude score, and working time in ICUs and weekly working hours (p>0.05). While there was no association between practice score, and age, professional years and working time in ICUs (p>0.05), the increase in weekly working hours (r=-0.243) was found to decrease practice score, and this association was found weak (p<0.05).
Conclusion: In conclusion, we consider nurses’ level of information is sufficient, but attitudes and practice were not at a positive level.
Relevance to clinical practice: Physical restraint may be a must to prevent patients’ agitation and protect therapeutic instruments in clinical settings. It is recommendable that out of such conditions, novel approaches should be developed to decrease the use of physical restraint.