TITLE:
Factors Affecting Verbal Agitation in Dementia Patients Living in Nursing Homes, South Korea
AUTHORS:
Eun Kyung Kim, Heeok Park
KEYWORDS:
Dementia, Nursing Home, Psychomotor Agitation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.8 No.6,
June
5,
2018
ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this study using secondary data
analysis was to identify factors affecting verbal agitation in patients with
dementia staying at nursing home. This study is a secondary analysis of an
existing original quantitative data set (n = 193). A total of 166 subjects’ data were included in this current study
after 27 subjects’ data were excluded from the original data because they did
not appear verbal agitation. Multiple regression analyses identified
hallucination (β = 0.27), total number of physiologic discomforts (β = 0.19) and pain (β = 0.17) as significant predictors of verbal agitation and these factors
explained 27.8% of the variance in the model. The findings of this study showed
that hallucination, total number of physiologic discomforts and pain with
dementia need to be considered when intervention programs to control verbal
agitation in patients with dementia were developed.