Oral care knowledge, attitude and practice among nursing staff in acute hospital settings in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT: Investigating the oral care delivered by nursing staff in acute hospital setting is having a remarkable shortage within the current literature. This was provoked due to lack of previous performed investigation in the acute hospital setting besides inconsistent existence of a standardized and comprehensive oral care knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) instrumentation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the oral care KAP level for inpatients among nursing staff; to identify possible barriers to the provision of oral care; and to identify training preferences to improve the oral care of inpatients, in acute hospital settings in Hong Kong; and to provide standardized comprehensive KAP based assessment tool that would benefit and guide other future studies. In this study, a cr

SUBMITTER: Tsui PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427009 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature