Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices for Delirium Management in Critically Ill Patients
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Delirium is a neurogenic disorder which causes cognitive impairment and abnormal emotions in critically ill patients. It also affects these patients by prolonging hospital treatment and decreasing quality of life. The purpose of this descriptive correlational research was to examine nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices for delirium management in critically ill patients, including to examine relationship between knowledge and attitudes in nursing practice regarding delirium management of critically ill patients. The sample included 260 registered nurses who worked in adult intensive care unit of provincial government hospitals and regional hospitals in the upper northern region of Thailand. Research instruments consisted of nurse’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices questionnaires for delirium management in critically ill patients. The data were analyzed by finding frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient statistics.
The results showed that the majority of participants’ knowledge and attitudes regarding delirium in critically ill patients were at a good level. The practice regarding delirium management were at a bad level. There was no correlation between knowledge and practice in delirium management in critically ill patients. Participants’ attitudes had less significantly, and positively associated with practice (rs = .270, p < .01).
These results can be used as basic knowledge for improving and developing nursing practice regarding delirium management among critically ill patients.
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