What do nursing students know about delirium?A cross-sectional study and scenario analysis
Rana A.Al-Awamleh1
Ibrahim Ayasreh2
Omar Khraisat3
Jafar M.Alkhawaldeh4
Haitham Khatatbeh5
Nisser Alhroub2
Manar Abu-abbas5
Ahmad Salameh Al-Awamleh6
1.Department of Adult Nursing,Faculty of Nursing,Jerash University,Jerash 26150,Jordan;Nursing Department,College of Applied Medical Sciences in Yanbu Governorate,Taibah University,Yanbu43321,Saudi Arabia2.Department of Adult Nursing,Faculty of Nursing,Jerash University,Jerash 26150,Jordan3.College of Nursing,King Khalid University(KKU),Muhayil Asir 61421,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia4.Faculty of Nursing,Isra University,Amman 11622,Jordan;Alghad College for Applied Medical Sciences,Najran 11118,Saudi Arabia5.Faculty of Nursing,Yarmouk University,Irbid 21163,Jordan6.Faculty of medicine,Caucasus International University,Tbilisi 0159,Georgia
摘要：Objective:To assess the level of nursing students' knowledge about delirium and its associated risk factors.Delirium is a clinical syndrome characterized by alterations in cognition and psychomotor activity.Since delirium is common among geriatric patients,adequate preparedness of nursing students to assess and manage delirious geriatric patients is necessary to improve potential nurses' quality of care and communication with this group.Limited research work was conducted to address nursing students' knowledge about delirium.
Methods:This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from October 2022 to February 2023.A convenience sampling was used,and 319 valid questionnaires were obtained from nursing students from six Jordanian governmental and private universities,who were at least in their third academic year.An adopted delirium knowledge scale was used to collect data.Descriptive statistics and an independent t-test were used for data analysis.
Results:The mean for general knowledge about delirium was 57.5％.The mean for knowledge of delirium risk factors was 61.8％.Nursing students in their fourth academic year scored significantly higher on both general knowledge and risk knowledge scales than students in the third academic year.
Conclusions:Nursing students' knowledge regarding delirium and its risk factors was low.Educational efforts should be maximized for incorporating and addressing the topic of delirium in the undergraduate nursing curriculum.Implications of this study include revising nursing curricula to ensure that students receive enough education on delirium,including its detection,diagnosis,and management.The implications also include giving nursing students the chance to gain experience in caring for delirious patients and providing them with the tools and resources they need to assess and manage delirium.
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论文发表日期：2025-09-20
在线出版日期：2025-10-13（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：7( 401-407 )
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