Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Associated Factors Towards Care of Elderly Patients among Nurses.
Hailye MitikeWondwossen Yimam HussienDebrnesh GoshiyeKumar Prem KumarPublished in: SAGE open nursing (2023)
The majority of nurses had inadequate knowledge, an unfavorable attitude, and inadequate practice towards the care of elderly patients. Having a first-degree and an unfavorable attitude with inadequate knowledge, lack of training and inadequate knowledge, unfavorable attitudes and less than 11 years of experience, working in non-academic hospitals, and unavailability of guidelines with inadequate practices were significantly associated.