TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wilfling, Denise
AU  - Berg, Almuth
AU  - Dörner, Jonas
AU  - Bartmann, Natascha
AU  - Klatt, Thomas
AU  - Meyer, Gabriele
AU  - Halek, Margareta
AU  - Möhler, Ralph
AU  - Köpke, Sascha
AU  - Dichter, Martin N
TI  - Attitudes and knowledge of nurses working at night and sleep promotion in nursing home residents: multicenter cross-sectional survey.
JO  - BMC geriatrics
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
SN  - 1471-2318
CY  - London
PB  - BioMed Central
M1  - DZNE-2023-00432
SP  - 206
PY  - 2023
N1  - CC BY
AB  - Sleep disturbances are common in nursing home residents and challenging for their nurses. Knowledge about sleep and sleep promoting factors is essential to provide adequate sleep management, where nurses play a key role. Therefore, nurses' knowledge and attitudes towards sleep and sleep promoting interventions is important as enabling or inhibiting factor for successful sleep management.A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted among nurses working wholly or partially at night in nursing homes in Germany. Data were collected between February and April 2021 via online or paper and pencil questionnaires, comprising 56 items. Nursing homes were recruited through existing cooperation with the study centers as well as via nursing home registers.Finally, 138 nursing homes participated and 271 nurses completed the survey. Nurses agreed that sleep disturbances are an important topic with important impact on resident' health. Although, the assessment of sleep was seen as nurses' responsibility, only 40 nurses (14.7
KW  - Humans
KW  - Cross-Sectional Studies
KW  - Clinical Competence
KW  - Nursing Homes
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders: diagnosis
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders: epidemiology
KW  - Sleep Wake Disorders: therapy
KW  - Sleep
KW  - Nurses’ attitudes (Other)
KW  - Educational needs (Other)
KW  - Germany (Other)
KW  - Nurses’ attitudes (Other)
KW  - Nursing homes (Other)
KW  - Sleep (Other)
KW  - Sleep promotion (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:37003974
C2  - pmc:PMC10066004
DO  - DOI:10.1186/s12877-023-03928-9
UR  - https://pub.dzne.de/record/257552
ER  -