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| Understanding barriers to continence care in institutions | | Author(s) | Cara Tannenbaum, Danielle Labrecque, Christiane Lepage |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 24, no 2, Summer 2005 |
| Pages | pp 151-160 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Incontinence ; Management [care] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Attitude ; Nurses ; Cross sectional surveys ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | The authors conducted a cross-sectional qualitative study using focus group methodology in four long-term care (LTC) institutions in Montreal. 42 nurses, nursing assistants and orderlies caring for incontinent residents were asked how they perceived urinary incontinence (UI), how it was being managed, and what factors enabled or hindered continence care in their institution. Content analysis was used. Facilitating and inhibiting elements of three individual or internal factors (beliefs about UI, attitudes towards older people, and knowledge about UI) and five institutional or external factors (workload demands, type of patient, environmental support, co-worker support, and attributes of UI interventions) emerged as important determinants of care providers' propensity to manage UI. To be successful, continence programmes must target multidimensional elements that take into account personal, systems and organisational level factors. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050906206 A |
| Classmark | CTM: QA: KW: LHB: DP: QTE: 3KB: 3DP: 7S |
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