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Volume 5, Issue 8(Suppl) J Nurs Care 2016
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal
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Determining attitudes and knowledge of patient relatives about the precautions taken to prevent
patient falls
Zeynep Kızılcık Özkan1
,Seher Ünver1, Figen Dığın2
1Trakya University Health Science Faculty, Nursing Department, EDİRNE, Turkey
2Kırklareli University, School of Health, Nursing Department, Kırklareli, Turkey
The aim of this study was determine initiatives of the patients relatives to prevent the falls. This descriptive study was
conducted in the General Surgery ward of Trakya University Research and Practice Center with the participation of
59 volunteered relatives of patients between 15th April 15th May 2015. The questionnaire was prepared by the researchers
according to literature and applied. The data were analyzed using frequency and percent with SPSS 20.0 software package.
It was determined that despite the 47.5% of patients’ relatıves have been informed about the precautions taken to prevent
patient falls, didn’t pay attention to some simple applications (support the use of aids-walker etc.). As a conclusion it was
determined that participants didn’t have adequate information about taken to precautions in order to prevent patient falls
and have moderate level of information about this subject. We recommend health professionals to show more attention to the
education of patients and their relatives about preventing patient falls.
Biography
Zeynep KIZILCIK ÖZKAN, the responsible author of this study, is a PhD student at Department of Surgical Nursing and working as a research assistant at Trakya
Unıversity, Faculty of Health Sciences since 2013. Her study areas are; colorectal surgery, pain, infections, neurosurgery
Zeynep Kızılcık Özkan et al., J Nurs Care 2016, 5:8(Suppl)