• Merav Ben Natan, Orit Akrish, Batsheva Zaltkina, and Ronit Har Noy.
• Pat Matthews Academic School of Nursing, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel. meraav@hy.health.gov.il
• Int J Nurs Pract. 2010 Oct 1; 16 (5): 499-507.

AbstractThe purpose of the current study was to identify and analyse major variables affecting intended decisions of nursing staff to physically restrain elder residents of long-term care facilities. The study explored whether a research model constructed of staff characteristics and resident characteristics would prove useful for predicting behavioural intentions. A total of 120 reliable and validated questionnaires, based on the research model, were administered to nurses working in a large long-term care facility for older adults in central Israel; 104 questionnaires were returned for a response rate of 86%. The research findings indicate that most of the nurses who responded (67.2%) reported that they had physically restrained elder residents more than 10 times over the past year; however, the nurses had a low intention of restraining residents during the coming year. The research results indicate that the intended decision of nursing staff to restrain elderly residents is a derivative of their behavioural beliefs and attitudes, normative beliefs and subjective norms, as well as of residents' dementia, physical state and stress.© 2010 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

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