An Education Intervention to Enhance Staff Self-Efficacy to Provide Dementia Care in an Acute Care Hospital in Canada.

Schindel Martin, Lori; Gillies, Leslie; Coker, Esther; Pizzacalla, Anne; Montemuro, Maureen; Suva, Grace; McLelland, Victoria

Education is needed for enhanced capacity of acute hospitals to provide dementia care. A nonrandomized controlled, repeated-measures design was used to evaluate a dementia education program delivered to an intervention group (IG, n = 468), compared to a wait-listed group (n = 277), representing separate sites of a multisite hospital. Participants completed self-efficacy for dementia and satisfaction measures and provided written descriptions of dementia care collected at baseline, postintervention (IG only), and at 8-week follow-up. Oral narratives were gathered from IG participants 8 weeks postintervention. The IG demonstrated significant improvement in self-efficacy scores from baseline to immediately postintervention (P < .001), sustained at 8 weeks. There were no changes from baseline to 8 weeks postintervention evident in the wait-listed group (P = .21). Intervention group participants described positive impacts including implementation of person-centered care approaches. Implementation of dementia care education programs throughout hospital settings is promising for the enhancement of dementia care.

CRITICAL care medicine; DEMENTIA; EMPLOYEE orientation; NURSE practitioners; OPERATING room personnel; SATISFACTION; SELF-efficacy; NARRATIVES; PRE-tests & post-tests; REPEATED measures design; PATIENT-centered care; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 8, p664

1533-3175

Academic Journal

10.1177/1533317516668574