title: Interventions used by nursing staff members with psychogeriatric patients resisting care.
abstract: Although resistance to care can have a major impact on the provision of care, relatively limited research has been reported on the topic. This research examined differences in the use of interventions by nurses in different care settings to manage resistance to care with eating and dressing. A convenience sample of 50 nurses (34 working in psychiatric hospitals and 16 in nursing homes) participated in the study. Nurses in both settings reported using similar interventions for both problems. Non-nursing interventions were consistently mentioned to be more common when resistance was accompanied by physical aggression than by verbal aggression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gerontology, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Studies, University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, 31905, Israel. wernerp@netvision.net.il
authors.forename: Perla
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Werner
authors.forename: Nili
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tabak
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Alpert
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bergman
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male