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Attitudes, Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Behaviors of Nurses in NUTRItional CARE for Older People: an Observational Study (the NUTRICARE Project)
In Brief
An observational study evaluating Online survey data collection for Nutrition Disorders in Old Age. Completed, enrolled 179 participants across 2 sites.
Detailed Summary
Even if awareness among nurses regarding the importance of nutritional care for older people has increased in recent years, nurses continue to underestimate the necessary approach to prevent malnutrition. Therefore, some authors have argued the critical importance of understanding which factors can influence nurses' caring behaviors during real situations and affect the prevention and management of malnutrition under actual working conditions. Specifically, the relationship between nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and self-efficacy in nutritional care for older people has not been described yet. Understanding these relationships can provide a framework to enhance adequate caring behaviors, mitigating the negative attitudes. Considering that self-efficacy has been previously theorized in several populations as the mediator of the relationship from knowledge and attitudes to specific behaviors, the investigators hypothesized that knowledge and attitudes in the specific area of nursing nutritional care have moderately positive effects on nursing caring behaviors in nutritional care only through the mediation of nursing self-efficacy. The study design is a multi-phase, descriptive observational cross-sectional, multicentric study, collecting data using a web-survey.
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The data will be collected via a web-survey created with the SurveyMonkey® software. The web-survey will be distributed among nurses at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda (Milan, Italy).