Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University, Southbank, Victoria, Australia.
Australas J Ageing. 2022 Mar;41(1):153-159. doi: 10.1111/ajag.13014. Epub 2021 Nov 18.
To explore aged care nurses' awareness and experience of unwanted sexual behaviour (USB) in residential aged care services (RACS).
An anonymous online questionnaire was administered to an opportunistic sample of RACS nurses enrolled to complete an e-learning course in Australia. From the 167 participants who expressed interest to enrol, 129 were eligible and 53 returned completed consent forms.
46/53 responded of which most were females (41/45, 91.1%). Few respondents reported resident-resident USB (<35%) or staff-resident USB (<22%) happened once a year. Most respondents had not been informed by a resident of USB (>75%) or had personally reported USB within their internal reporting system (>77%). Respondents were also unaware if their facility had lodged an incident report to the regulator or law enforcement authorities within the past 12 months (34/46, 73.9%). Finally, most considered there to be no barriers to reporting USB (35/46, 77.8%).
Respondents' awareness and estimates of USB directed at residents were much lower than known national prevalence rates. This lack of awareness could be a substantive barrier to recognition and optimal management of this form of abuse.
探讨老年护理护士在养老院服务（RACS）中对非意愿性行为（USB）的认知和经验。
对澳大利亚参与在线学习课程的养老院护士进行了一项匿名在线问卷调查。在表示有兴趣参加的 167 名参与者中，有 129 名符合条件，有 53 名返回了完整的同意书。
53 名受访者中有 46 名做出了回应，其中大多数是女性（41/45，91.1%）。很少有受访者报告居民之间的 USB（<35%）或工作人员与居民之间的 USB（<22%）每年发生一次。大多数受访者没有被居民告知 USB（>75%）或在他们的内部报告系统中亲自报告 USB（>77%）。受访者也不知道他们的机构是否在过去 12 个月内向监管机构或执法部门提交了事件报告（34/46，73.9%）。最后，大多数人认为报告 USB 没有障碍（35/46，77.8%）。
受访者对居民 USB 的认识和估计远低于已知的全国流行率。这种缺乏认识可能是识别和最佳管理这种形式虐待的实质性障碍。
