Coping Behaviors of Geriatric Hospital Nurses to the BPSD in Persons with Dementia

This study is a descriptive research to investigate geriatric hospital nurse’s coping behaviors to the BPSD in persons with dementia. A total of 140 nurses who care persons with dementia in geriatric hospitals were participated. Data was analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation using SPSS/WIN 21.0 program. Nurse’s coping behaviors to the BPSD in persons with dementia including immediate coping behaviors, intervention therapy, environmental intervention and restrains were mostly used in order. Total coping behaviors showed significant differences according to the marital status, religion, Received (November 24, 2017), Review Result (December 1, 2017) Accepted (January 12, 2018), Published (February 28, 2018) 1 Department of nursing, Yeungjin College, Bokhyun-Ro, Buk-Gu, Daegue, Korea email: hpark@yjc.ac.kr 2 (Corresponding Author) College of Nursing, Research institute of Nursing Science, Keimyung University, Daegue, Korea email: hopark@kmu.ac.kr Coping Behaviors of Geriatric Hospital Nurses to the BPSD in Persons with Dementia Copyright c 2018 HSST 826 number of participating in education program related to dementia. There were significant differences in intervention according to the marital status, religion, education level, total work experience, number of participating in education program related to dementia and Institutional education on BPSD. There were also significant differences in environmental intervention according to the marital status, religion, education level, total work experience, number of participating in education program related to dementia and Institutional education on BPSD. The results of this study may be useful to provide basic data for nurses' education and training programs related to BPSD in persons with dementia.

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