Background：Skin care is one of the important tasks of nurse aides in long-term care facilities and their nursing knowledge, attitude and skills have great influence on the quality of care. However, the work schedule of nurse aides often limits them from obtaining further education and training. Therefore, developing appropriate and effective training programs for nurse aides is very important in long-term care facilities.
Purpose：To investigate the effects of multimedia assisted instruction on nurse aides skin care learning in long-term care facilities.
Methods：Quasi-experimental design and purposive sampling were adopted in the study, with 96 nurse aides from five long-term care facilities in Taoyuan as the subjects. The experimental group received two weeks of multimedia assisted instruction and the control group didn’t receive multimedia assisted instruction. The Skin Care Questionnaire for Nurse Aides in Long-term Care Facilities and the Skin Care Behavior Checklist were used for assessment before and after the intervention.
Results：(1)After the intervention training, the experimental group obtained significantly higher scores on skin care knowledge, attitude, behavior and skin care checklist than that before the intervention, while the control group showed no significant difference. (2)After a covariance analysis of the two groups before the intervention, the experimental group obtained significantly higher scores on skin care knowledge, attitude, behavior and skin care checklist than the control group.
Conclusions：The multimedia assisted instruction has significant effects on the skin care leaning of nurse aides in long-term care facilities. Therefore, it is suggested that multimedia assisted instruction should be used for the education and training of nurse aides in long-term care facilities in the future.