Factors Affecting Verbal Agitation in Dementia Patients Living in Nursing Homes, South Korea

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DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2018.86028    844 Downloads   2,790 Views  Citations

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.

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Kim, E. and Park, H. (2018) Factors Affecting Verbal Agitation in Dementia Patients Living in Nursing Homes, South Korea. Open Journal of Nursing, 8, 339-354. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2018.86028.
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