TITLE:
Review of Nurses’ Knowledge of Delirium, Dementia and Depressions (3Ds): Systematic Literature Review
AUTHORS:
Sara Mahmoud Yaghmour, Leila Gholizadeh
KEYWORDS:
Nurses, 3Ds Knowledge, Health Education, Dementia, Delirium, Depression, Psychogeriatric
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Nursing,
Vol.6 No.3,
March
16,
2016
ABSTRACT: This paper aims at reviewing literature on nurses’ knowledge of delirium, dementia and depression (3Ds) which are rapidly increasing worldwide as the population ages, and to identify interventions that have shown effectiveness in improving nurses’ knowledge level of these diseases. Nurses’ knowledge of delirium, dementia and depression is essential to providing quality patient care. To access the literature, online databases including Medline (OVID), CINAHL (EBSCO), Nursing and Allied Health Source (ProQuest), and Health and Medicine (ProQuest), in addition to Google scholar search engine, were searched using key words “delirium”, “dementia”, “depression”, “nurse*”, “knowledge” and their alternative words. Overall, 20 articles were found to meet the criteria for inclusion in the review. The study found that nurses’ knowledge of the 3Ds was generally low, and they were not particularly able to differentiate between the three diseases. It is important that health care systems are adequately resourced to meet this growing challenge. Nurses should receive appropriate training about the 3Ds, and their knowledge be reinforced through continuing education.