- Title
- Caring self-efficacy of direct care workers in residential aged care settings : a mixed methods scoping review
- Creator
- Shrestha, Sumina; Alharbi, Rayan; Wells, Yvonne; While, Christine; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180598
- Identifier
- vital:15789
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2021.09.014
- Identifier
- ISBN:0197-4572 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- The caring self-efficacy of direct care workers in residential aged care has been explored in the literature mostly as a predictor rather than the focus of interest. This scoping review aimed to provide an overview of the existing literature on aged care workers’ caring self-efficacy and factors that influence it. A systematic search was performed in six electronic databases. All primary studies were included. A total of 41 studies met the inclusion criteria. Caring self-efficacy was most often described by aged care workers as their capacity to deal with difficult situations. The self-efficacy scores of direct care workers were high across studies. Self-efficacy was positively influenced by access to resources, relationships with residents and their families, the support of supervisors and co-workers, job satisfaction, and training opportunities, and negatively affected by work pressure and burnout. Findings indicate possible avenues for intervention to improve direct care workers’ self-efficacy in aged care. © 2021 Elsevier Inc.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc.
- Relation
- Geriatric Nursing Vol. 42, no. 6 (2021), p. 1429-1445
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; Direct care workers; Nursing homes; Nursing staff; Residential aged care; Scoping review; Self-efficacy
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work is supported by a La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship and La Trobe University Full Fee Research Scholarship.
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