The congruence of elderly client and nurse perceptions of the clients’ self‐care agency

摘要

Congruence of client and nurse perceptions is vital to mutual goal‐setting as a means of achieving self‐care in the elderly The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to explore the relationship between nurse and elderly client perceptions of the clients’ self‐care agency A sample of 40 elderly client subjects and registered nurses’ selected from two community health agencies, completed a questionnaire consisting of three instruments (a) a demographic sheet, (b) the appraisal of Self‐Care Agency Scale, and (c) the Perceived Health Status Pearson product moment correlation coefficients were significant for the relationships between (a) client and nurse perceptions of clients’ self‐care agency (r=0.42, P<0.01), (b) client and nurse perceptions of clients’ health status (r=0 38, P<0.01, and (c) nurse perceptions of clients’ self‐care agency and nurse perceptions of clients’ health status (r=0 44, P<0.01) With increasing emphasis on health promotion of the elderly in the community, identified relationships may have potential implications for gerontological and co