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Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions

Objective: This study aimed to increase nurses’ interest and priority in oral care by implementing educational interventions, such as teaching oral care methods suitable for each patient in clinical settings, over a period of one year. Materials and Methods: This study included all 150 nurses workin...

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Autores principales: Koike, Takashi, Ohta, Ryuichi, Matsuda, Yuhei, Sano, Chiaki, Kanno, Takahiro
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685458
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172425
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author Koike, Takashi
Ohta, Ryuichi
Matsuda, Yuhei
Sano, Chiaki
Kanno, Takahiro
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Ohta, Ryuichi
Matsuda, Yuhei
Sano, Chiaki
Kanno, Takahiro
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description Objective: This study aimed to increase nurses’ interest and priority in oral care by implementing educational interventions, such as teaching oral care methods suitable for each patient in clinical settings, over a period of one year. Materials and Methods: This study included all 150 nurses working in Unnan City Hospital in Japan who answered a questionnaire comprising 19 questions regarding awareness, actual implementation status of oral care provided, burden, and involvement with oral and maxillofacial surgery department of the hospital, along with participants’ characteristics. The rate of interest in learning, need for oral care, time spent in oral care, and oral health-related caregiver burden index (OHBI) score were compared between pre- and post-intervention groups. Results: The number and rate of valid questionnaires were 136 and 90.7%, respectively. The mean years of clinical experience were 19.3 ± 12.5 years; 93.4% of the nurses were women. After the interventions by dental specialists, the nurses’ level of interest in and priority to oral care were significantly higher than those before the interventions (p < 0.001), regardless of nurses’ background, such as age, gender, or years of experience. However, the “burden” did not statistically decrease. Conclusions: This study shows that dental specialists succeeded in significantly increasing nurses’ interest in and priority to oral care by intervening in clinical practice but failed in decreasing nurses’ burden of oral care. In the future, we would like to investigate the problems that hinder the reduction of the sense of burden, reduce the burden of nurses’ oral care, and improve oral care.
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spelling pubmed-104876602023-09-09 Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions Koike, Takashi Ohta, Ryuichi Matsuda, Yuhei Sano, Chiaki Kanno, Takahiro Healthcare (Basel) Article Objective: This study aimed to increase nurses’ interest and priority in oral care by implementing educational interventions, such as teaching oral care methods suitable for each patient in clinical settings, over a period of one year. Materials and Methods: This study included all 150 nurses working in Unnan City Hospital in Japan who answered a questionnaire comprising 19 questions regarding awareness, actual implementation status of oral care provided, burden, and involvement with oral and maxillofacial surgery department of the hospital, along with participants’ characteristics. The rate of interest in learning, need for oral care, time spent in oral care, and oral health-related caregiver burden index (OHBI) score were compared between pre- and post-intervention groups. Results: The number and rate of valid questionnaires were 136 and 90.7%, respectively. The mean years of clinical experience were 19.3 ± 12.5 years; 93.4% of the nurses were women. After the interventions by dental specialists, the nurses’ level of interest in and priority to oral care were significantly higher than those before the interventions (p < 0.001), regardless of nurses’ background, such as age, gender, or years of experience. However, the “burden” did not statistically decrease. Conclusions: This study shows that dental specialists succeeded in significantly increasing nurses’ interest in and priority to oral care by intervening in clinical practice but failed in decreasing nurses’ burden of oral care. In the future, we would like to investigate the problems that hinder the reduction of the sense of burden, reduce the burden of nurses’ oral care, and improve oral care. MDPI 2023-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10487660/ /pubmed/37685458 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172425 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Koike, Takashi
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Sano, Chiaki
Kanno, Takahiro
Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title_full Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title_fullStr Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title_full_unstemmed Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title_short Nurses’ Awareness of and Current Approaches to Oral Care in a Community Hospital in Japan: A Longitudinal Study of Dental Specialists’ Interventions
title_sort nurses’ awareness of and current approaches to oral care in a community hospital in japan: a longitudinal study of dental specialists’ interventions
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685458
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11172425
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