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Attitudes, Knowledge, Self-efficacy, and Behaviors of Nurses in Nutritional Care for Older People

NCT05691595 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 179

Last updated 2025-10-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Even if awareness among nurses regarding the importance of nutritional care for older people has increased in recent years, nurses continue to underestimate the necessary approach to prevent malnutrition. Therefore, some authors have argued the critical importance of understanding which factors can influence nurses' caring behaviors during real situations and affect the prevention and management of malnutrition under actual working conditions. Specifically, the relationship between nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and self-efficacy in nutritional care for older people has not been described yet. Understanding these relationships can provide a framework to enhance adequate caring behaviors, mitigating the negative attitudes.

Considering that self-efficacy has been previously theorized in several populations as the mediator of the relationship from knowledge and attitudes to specific behaviors, the investigators hypothesized that knowledge and attitudes in the specific area of nursing nutritional care have moderately positive effects on nursing caring behaviors in nutritional care only through the mediation of nursing self-efficacy.

The study design is a multi-phase, descriptive observational cross-sectional, multicentric study, collecting data using a web-survey.

Conditions

  • Nutrition Disorders in Old Age

Interventions

OTHER

Online survey data collection

The data will be collected via a web-survey created with the SurveyMonkey® software. The web-survey will be distributed among nurses at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda (Milan, Italy).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda

    collaborator OTHER

  • IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rosario Caruso · IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-06-01
Primary Completion
2025-09-30
Completion
2025-10-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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