Family caregivers use a Hand-Under-Hand online course to improve the nutritional status of patients with severe dementia: A quasi-experimental study.

Aim: In Taiwan, over 90% of dementia patients received home care. Severe dementia-linked food refusal significantly affects nutrition, thereby straining caregivers. Family caregivers can reduce their burden by learning feeding and dementia nutrition online, thus preserving patient oral feeding.

Effect of Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) on Social Interaction and Quality of Life in Patients with Schizophrenia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Experimental Study.

Purpose: Most patients with schizophrenia exhibit low willingness to return to society because of negative social experiences. The COVID-19 pandemic led to severe social isolation for schizophrenia patients. However, animal-assisted therapy (AAT) can improve individuals' empathy, social functions, and quality of life.

Anti-stigma psychosocial intervention effects on reducing mental illness self-stigma and increasing self-esteem among patients with schizophrenia in Taiwan: A quasi-experiment.

Previous studies have noted that as self-stigma in patients with schizophrenia increases, their quality of life and self-esteem decrease. Considering the cultural differences and scarcity of self-stigma intervention research in Asia, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the intervention effects of the Against Stigma Program on reducing self-stigma and increasing self-esteem among patients with schizophrenia. In this study, 70 patients with schizophrenia were recruited from 3 community psychiatric rehabilitation institutions in Taiwan and assigned to the experimental and control groups.

A Study on the Correlations between Musculoskeletal Disorders and Work-Related Psychosocial Factors among Nursing Aides in Long-Term Care Facilities.

Background: Among the nursing aides employed at long-term care facilities (LTCFs), those with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are most likely to experience disability or develop an intention to leave. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of work-related psychological factors among nursing aides in LTCFs with MSDs in Taiwan.

Methods: Purposive sampling was used in this cross-sectional study to enrol 308 nursing aides from residential LTCFs in Taiwan as research subjects.

Effectiveness of a Sexuality Workshop for Nurse Aides in Long-Term Care Facilities.

Background: In long-term care facilities, there are frequent conflicts related to elderly residents' sexual expression. Nurse aides usually handle such conflicts with negative or negligent attitudes; therefore, elderly sexuality is considered "problem behavior" and is stigmatized.

Objectives: This study aimed to improve elderly residents' quality of sexual life by enhancing nurse aides' knowledge and attitudes toward elderly sexuality through sexuality workshops.

[Effects of Aromatherapy on Depression and Loneliness in Elderly With Frailty Living in Day-Care Centers].

Background: In addition to playing significant role in the decline of physiological functions and the onset of depression, frailty is involved in a vicious circle with depression that has serious physical and mental impacts on sufferers. Furthermore, elderly people with frailty are less mobile, at increased risk of dissociative interpersonal relationships, and prone to develop a sense of loneliness, which also pose health threats.

Purposes: This study was designed to explore the improvement effects of an aromatherapy intervention on depression and loneliness in the elderly with frailty living in daycare centers.

The effect of caregiver's and nurse's perception of a patient's discharge readiness on postdischarge medical resource consumption.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to validate patient's primary caregiver and their nurse's perception of patient discharge readiness assessment and their association with postdischarge medical consumption.

Design: The study employed a descriptive research, prospective longitudinal study design.

Method: The study was performed in a ward of a medical centre in Taipei, Taiwan, from June 2017-May 2018.

Comparison of the efficacy of aroma-acupressure and aromatherapy for the treatment of dementia-associated agitation.

Background: One of the most common symptoms observed in patients with dementia is agitation, and several non-pharmacological treatments have been used to control this symptom. However, because of limitations in research design, the benefit of non-pharmacological treatments has only been demonstrated in certain cases. The purpose of this study was to compare aroma-acupressure and aromatherapy with respect to their effects on agitation in patients with dementia.

Using acupressure and Montessori-based activities to decrease agitation for residents with dementia: a cross-over trial.

Objectives: To explore the effectiveness of acupressure and Montessori-based activities in decreasing the agitated behaviors of residents with dementia.

Design: A double-blinded, randomized (two treatments and one control; three time periods) cross-over design was used.

Setting: Six special care units for residents with dementia in long-term care facilities in Taiwan were the sites for the study.

[Acupressure in the care of the elderly].

Acupressure is a longstanding treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, and involves the stimulation of certain acupoints by pressing with the fingers or moving limbs or joints slowly to promote health or offer comfort. Acupressure treatment, which conforms to the same principles as acupuncture, is characterized by the pressing of acupuncture points and sense of chi. Chi is regarded as the universal life energy and the vital potential that is inborn in each person and which maintains that person until death.

The efficacy of acupressure for decreasing agitated behaviour in dementia: a pilot study.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the efficacy of acupressure in decreasing agitated behaviours associated with dementia.

Background: Agitated behaviour is found in nearly half of all patients who have dementia. The presence of these behaviours increases the likelihood of injury, weakness, dehydration and lack of sleep and contributes to caregiver frustration and fatigue.