Table 5 Participants’ communication skills and the environment securing methods in the pre and post intervention
Communication skills used to adapt vision impairment | Pre-test n = 531 | Post-test n = 531 | P-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Correct | Incorrect | Correct | Incorrect | ||||||
No | % | No | % | No | % | No | % | ||
Communication skills with the elderly who has poor vision: | |||||||||
Introducing oneself when entering an elderly person every time | 474 | 89.3 | 57 | 10.7 | 498 | 93.8 | 33 | 6.2 | 0.008* |
Telling the elderly person in detail what you are going to do | 466 | 87.8 | 65 | 12.2 | 505 | 95.1 | 26 | 4.9 | 0.000* |
Communicating with the elderly by relying on other senses such as hearing and touch- with the possibility of telling him about this | 463 | 87.2 | 68 | 12.8 | 494 | 93.0 | 37 | 7.0 | 0.001* |
If the elderly person is blind, he must be told when he finishes talking and leaves the place | 450 | 84.7 | 81 | 15.3 | 468 | 88.1 | 63 | 11.9 | 0.107 |
Methods of securing the environment around the elderly to prevent accidents practice: | |||||||||
Arranging and clearing floors and stairs from any obstacles such as carpets, furniture (with sharp edges), wires and electrical connections | 505 | 95.1 | 26 | 4.9 | 520 | 97.9 | 11 | 2.1 | 0.012* |
The fewer things in the environment surrounding the elderly, the greater the safety | 489 | 92.1 | 42 | 7.9 | 510 | 96.0 | 21 | 4.0 | 0.006* |
Fixing the places of things surrounding the elderly | 460 | 86.6 | 71 | 13.4 | 487 | 91.7 | 44 | 8.3 | 0.008* |
Awareness of the elderly about changes in the places surrounding him | 473 | 89.1 | 58 | 10.9 | 506 | 95.3 | 25 | 4.7 | 0.000* |
Serving food in one fixed place | 147 | 27.7 | 384 | 72.3 | 178 | 33.5 | 353 | 66.5 | 0.039* |
Informing the elderly when moving and being in a new place by introducing him to the rooms, places of things and also people | 470 | 88.5 | 61 | 11.5 | 506 | 95.3 | 25 | 4.7 | 0.000* |
Offering to help the elderly and ask him how he can be helped without insisting on my opinion | 458 | 86.3 | 73 | 13.7 | 487 | 91.7 | 44 | 8.3 | 0.004* |