Evaluation of Nurses' Attitude toward the Provision of Oral Hygiene Care to Hospitalized Patients at Two Private Hospitals in South India

BACKGROUND: Several hospitalized patients with complex medical issues depend on nursing staff for their daily health care due to several functional limitations. This study investigates the Oral Hygiene Care (OHC) activities and attitudes of nurses toward hospitalized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...

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Autores principales: Nagarakanti, Sreenivas, Avuluri, Joshna, Chava, Vijay K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31772924
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_39_19
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author Nagarakanti, Sreenivas
Avuluri, Joshna
Chava, Vijay K.
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description BACKGROUND: Several hospitalized patients with complex medical issues depend on nursing staff for their daily health care due to several functional limitations. This study investigates the Oral Hygiene Care (OHC) activities and attitudes of nurses toward hospitalized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at two private hospitals using a self-administered, structured questionnaire distributed to 585 nursing staff. Data were analyzed through percentages. RESULTS: About 85.70% of the nurses ranked OHC as important; among them, 74.00% ranked as important to extremely important. Very few (2.40%) rated providing OHC to be an unpleasant task and the majority (41.80%) felt lack or proper training is one of the reasons for providing OHC satisfactorily. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses experienced significant behavioral and physical difficulties while providing OHC, but still found it important. Therefore, training programs are needed for nurses to improve OHC to hospitalized patients.
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spelling pubmed-68758882019-11-26 Evaluation of Nurses' Attitude toward the Provision of Oral Hygiene Care to Hospitalized Patients at Two Private Hospitals in South India Nagarakanti, Sreenivas Avuluri, Joshna Chava, Vijay K. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Short Communication BACKGROUND: Several hospitalized patients with complex medical issues depend on nursing staff for their daily health care due to several functional limitations. This study investigates the Oral Hygiene Care (OHC) activities and attitudes of nurses toward hospitalized patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted at two private hospitals using a self-administered, structured questionnaire distributed to 585 nursing staff. Data were analyzed through percentages. RESULTS: About 85.70% of the nurses ranked OHC as important; among them, 74.00% ranked as important to extremely important. Very few (2.40%) rated providing OHC to be an unpleasant task and the majority (41.80%) felt lack or proper training is one of the reasons for providing OHC satisfactorily. CONCLUSIONS: Nurses experienced significant behavioral and physical difficulties while providing OHC, but still found it important. Therefore, training programs are needed for nurses to improve OHC to hospitalized patients. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6875888/ /pubmed/31772924 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_39_19 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_sort evaluation of nurses' attitude toward the provision of oral hygiene care to hospitalized patients at two private hospitals in south india
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6875888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31772924
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_39_19
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