[Influential factors on accidental fall prevention behaviors of long-term care hospital nurses : A descriptive study]

This study aimed to identify the influential factors of nursing home nurses that impact fall-prevention behaviors, thereby providing basic data to prepare effective measures that can increase nurses' fall-prevention behaviors.

The participants were 136 nurses from 4 long-term care hospitals with more than 200 beds. The relevant data were collected from August 2 to August 31, 2021, and analyzed using independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression.

The factors that had a significant impact on the fall prevention behaviors of participants included not only the perception of patient safety culture (β=.18, p=.039) and the age (β=.21, p=.046) but also the perceived seriousness (β=.22 p=.012), the perceived barrier (β=-.17, p=.044), and the motivation of action (β=.18, p=.028), which are the sub-domains of fall-prevention behavior health beliefs. The regression model was revealed to be significant, and the total explanatory power of the variables for fall-prevention behaviors was 44.5% (p<.001).

The influential factors on fall prevention behaviors of long-term care hospital nurses included perception of patient safety culture, fall-prevention behavior health beliefs, and age. This study has significance in that the results helped identify the influential factors on nursing home nurses' fall-prevention behaviors, thereby providing fundamental data for effective fall prevention behaviors.