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Table 3 Nursing staff's choice of fall-preventing interventions

From: The nursing staff's opinion of falls among older persons with dementia. a cross-sectional study

        

Employed in the care unit in question

INTERVENTIONS

Total

n = 63

ENs

n = 40

RNs

n = 14

p-value1)

≤5 yeras

n = 34

>5 years

n = 29

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Conversation and closeness

3.4

.6

3.3

.5

3.7

.5

.015

3.4

.6

3.4

.5

Music

2.8

.8

2.7

.8

2.9

.9

 

2.6

.8

3.0

.8

Extra supper meal

2.8

.8

2.8

.8

2.9

.9

 

2.7

.7

3.0

.8

Diverting activities

3.0

.7

2.9

.7

3.1

.8

 

3.0

.8

2.9

.6

Assistance with personal hygiene

3.4

.8

3.5

.7

3.8

.5

 

3.3

.9

3.6

.6

Administrating sedatives (RN)

2.0

.8

-

-

2.2

.7

-

1.9

.8

2.3

.8

Ask for ordination of sedatives (EN)

1.7

.8

1.6

.7

-

-

-

1.8

.9

1.7

.7

  1. Scale: 1 = Seldom, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often, 4 = Very often.. 1) Significance test Mann Whitney U-test
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