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Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital

BACKGROUND: Cognitive disorders such as dementia are common among older adults admitted to general hospitals. They can complicate treatment leading to longer hospitalization and worse outcomes. They often remain underdiagnosed as the busy routine of the hospital does not enable efficient screening a...

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Autores principales: Zygouris, Stelios, Gkioka, Mara, Moraitou, Despoina, Teichmann, Birgit, Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos, Papagianopoulos, Sotirios, Tsolaki, Magda
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Publicado: Springer Medizin 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31641839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00391-019-01633-0
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author Zygouris, Stelios
Gkioka, Mara
Moraitou, Despoina
Teichmann, Birgit
Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos
Papagianopoulos, Sotirios
Tsolaki, Magda
author_facet Zygouris, Stelios
Gkioka, Mara
Moraitou, Despoina
Teichmann, Birgit
Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos
Papagianopoulos, Sotirios
Tsolaki, Magda
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description BACKGROUND: Cognitive disorders such as dementia are common among older adults admitted to general hospitals. They can complicate treatment leading to longer hospitalization and worse outcomes. They often remain underdiagnosed as the busy routine of the hospital does not enable efficient screening and available screening instruments are not suitable for the hospital environment. Computerized cognitive testing (CCT) has been proposed as an efficient screening method as it can be employed by nonspecialists, such as nurses while featuring automatic scoring and interpretation of results. OBJECTIVE: This study validated a newly developed questionnaire for measuring the attitudes of Greek nurses towards computerized dementia screening. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The questionnaire was validated in a sample of 212 undergraduate psychology students and subsequently administered to a sample of 19 nurses working in a general hospital. Reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha (= 0.762). Factor analysis revealed the existence of a single factor (acceptability-feasibility) that accounted for 33.73% of variance with an eigenvalue of 3.036. RESULTS: The total score of all the items loading on the single factor (acceptability-feasibility) was calculated. Scores ranged between 10 and 40 with the average score for the validation group being 29.33 (SD = 4.89) and the average score for the nurses’ group being 29.50 (SD = 3.20). DISCUSSION: The questionnaire has acceptable reliability. Results indicate that acceptability-feasibility is high in both groups and there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00391-019-01633-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-68216562019-11-06 Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital Zygouris, Stelios Gkioka, Mara Moraitou, Despoina Teichmann, Birgit Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos Papagianopoulos, Sotirios Tsolaki, Magda Z Gerontol Geriatr Themenschwerpunkt BACKGROUND: Cognitive disorders such as dementia are common among older adults admitted to general hospitals. They can complicate treatment leading to longer hospitalization and worse outcomes. They often remain underdiagnosed as the busy routine of the hospital does not enable efficient screening and available screening instruments are not suitable for the hospital environment. Computerized cognitive testing (CCT) has been proposed as an efficient screening method as it can be employed by nonspecialists, such as nurses while featuring automatic scoring and interpretation of results. OBJECTIVE: This study validated a newly developed questionnaire for measuring the attitudes of Greek nurses towards computerized dementia screening. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The questionnaire was validated in a sample of 212 undergraduate psychology students and subsequently administered to a sample of 19 nurses working in a general hospital. Reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach’s alpha (= 0.762). Factor analysis revealed the existence of a single factor (acceptability-feasibility) that accounted for 33.73% of variance with an eigenvalue of 3.036. RESULTS: The total score of all the items loading on the single factor (acceptability-feasibility) was calculated. Scores ranged between 10 and 40 with the average score for the validation group being 29.33 (SD = 4.89) and the average score for the nurses’ group being 29.50 (SD = 3.20). DISCUSSION: The questionnaire has acceptable reliability. Results indicate that acceptability-feasibility is high in both groups and there were no statistically significant differences between the two groups. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00391-019-01633-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Medizin 2019-10-22 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6821656/ /pubmed/31641839 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00391-019-01633-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Teichmann, Birgit
Tsiatsos, Thrasyvoulos
Papagianopoulos, Sotirios
Tsolaki, Magda
Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title_full Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title_fullStr Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title_full_unstemmed Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title_short Views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: A validation and pilot study in a general hospital
title_sort views of nursing staff on computerized dementia screening: a validation and pilot study in a general hospital
topic Themenschwerpunkt
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821656/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31641839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00391-019-01633-0
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