Table 3.
Nursing staff's choice of fall-preventing interventions
| Employed in the care unit in question | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INTERVENTIONS | Total n = 63 |
ENs n = 40 |
RNs n = 14 |
p-value 1) | ≤5 yeras n = 34 |
>5 years n = 29 |
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Conversation and closeness | 3.4 | .6 | 3.3 | .5 | 3.7 | .5 | .015 | 3.4 | .6 | 3.4 | .5 |
| Music | 2.8 | .8 | 2.7 | .8 | 2.9 | .9 | 2.6 | .8 | 3.0 | .8 | |
| Extra supper meal | 2.8 | .8 | 2.8 | .8 | 2.9 | .9 | 2.7 | .7 | 3.0 | .8 | |
| Diverting activities | 3.0 | .7 | 2.9 | .7 | 3.1 | .8 | 3.0 | .8 | 2.9 | .6 | |
| Assistance with personal hygiene | 3.4 | .8 | 3.5 | .7 | 3.8 | .5 | 3.3 | .9 | 3.6 | .6 | |
| Administrating sedatives (RN) | 2.0 | .8 | - | - | 2.2 | .7 | - | 1.9 | .8 | 2.3 | .8 |
| Ask for ordination of sedatives (EN) | 1.7 | .8 | 1.6 | .7 | - | - | - | 1.8 | .9 | 1.7 | .7 |
Scale: 1 = Seldom, 2 = Sometimes, 3 = Often, 4 = Very often.. 1) Significance test Mann Whitney U-test