Thank you for taking your time to participate in our study.
You are invited to participate in the study conducted by Associate Professor Rita Chang, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing educational training courses as well as environmental changes to improve the nutritional status and dining experience of older residents while improving the knowledge and attitudes of caregivers assisting older residents during the meal. We invite you to answer this questionnaire question in approximately 15-20 minutes to complete.
What are the last 4 digits of your cell phone number?
e.g. 0234
What is the first letter of your last name (last name)?
e.g：Z
What is your educational level?
How many years of nursing experience do you have?(e.g. 8 years)
How many years of nursing experience have you had in this current job ? (e.g. 3 years)
What type of your work do you do?
What is the name of the nursing home where you work？
Part 1:Your Knowledge of helping older people with dementia to eat - Questionnaire.
These questions want to understand your knowledge of the older people with dementia who have difficulty in food intake. Please choose the best answer from the following questions and check in the front of the answer, Please do not guess the answer, if you do not know the answer, please choose the "I don not know" option.
Generally, how many stages of Alzheimer’s disease are there?
What major complications can be found when persons with dementia have difficulties in eating?
What causes persons with dementia to have food intake difficulties during the early stages of dementia?
What ability is not included in the eating process?
Which action is correct if a person with dementia leaves the table before finishing the meal?
What are some signs of choking in a person with dementia?
Which action is incorrect when the PWD is choking?
Which action is incorrect after the mealtime?
What should not be done before assisting PWD with eating?
What is your position when you help the person with dementia to eat?
What following strategy cannot help persons with dementia to retain their ability to do self-eating?
Which following eating assistance skill is not appropriate?
What kind of food is inappropriate for the patient with dementia who has eating difficulties?
What seated position on a chair is proper for the patient while eating?
Which of the following descriptions is incorrect?
What behaviour can be observed when the person with dementia refuses to eat during the early stages of dementia?
What eating assistance skills can help the persons with dementia to eat?
Part2:Attitude toward helping older people with
dementia to eat ---Questionnaire
Want to know your thoughts and feelings when you care for a mentally retarded older people with dementia who has difficulty with food intake. Please answer the following statement based on your experience and beliefs. Please read each statement and select the response that best suits you.
The answers are all subjective, with no right and wrong answers.
1= strongly disagree 2= disagree 3.= neutrality
4= agree 5= strongly agree
I don't know how to deal with the eating difficulties of PWD.
Tube feeding is the best way to solve the food intake difficulties of PWD.
I cannot do anything when PWD have food intake difficulties.
Taking care of PWD with tube feeding is much easier than food intake via oral.
I do not have enough training to take care of PWD with food intake difficulties.
In order to save working hours, I will assist a PWD to eat even though he/she can eat by himself/herself.
I do not have confidence to help PWD with food intake difficulties to eat safely and properly via oral.
Even effective eating assistance skills still cannot help PWD with food intake difficulties
No matter what I do, PWD still get worse.
Food intake difficulties of PWD are inevitable and can be worse.
I do not like to assist PWD with eating.
Providing PWD with eating takes too much time.
I am afraid of PWD refusal to eat while assisting them.
I do not know how to deal with PWD chocking.
I do not know how to deal with PWD refusal to eat.
I can aid with two or more PWD at one time.
PWD do not need to be given choices about what kinds of food to eat.
Assisting PWD with eating should be done as fast as possible.
Assisting PWD with food intake is the most difficult task of taking care of persons with dementia.
Please choose the number of how difficult you believe it is to assist PWD with eating.
1= completely not difficult, 10= extremely difficult, please check the answer according to the difficulty level.
Do you believe that new eating assistance skills help you to assist PWD with eating?
1= No help at all 10= very helpful, please check the answer according to your actual situation
How often do you try to use feeding skills (for example, prepare dining posture) to help the older people with dementia eat, so that the older people with dementia eat smoothly.
Have you had trouble assisting PWD with eating?
If you have trouble assisting PWD with eating, what can you do?
What helps your ability to assist PWD with eating, such as another nurse’s assistance?
What hinders your efforts in assisting PWD with eating, such as time-limited?
What would you like to learn about assisting PWD with eating, such as influential factors of assisting PWD with eating?
Do you believe you have enough information about assisting PWD with eating?
Thanks so much for taking time to complete this survey！
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