The Impact of Hygiene Status on Caregiving for Older Adults among Certified Nursing Assistants in China Nursing Facilities: Occupational Ethics and Working Attitudes as Mediators in Parallel

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmhs.202305308

Author(s)

Yanyan Zhao1, Hongzhao Wang1,*, Qing Sun2

Affiliation(s)

1School of Physical Education, Huainan Normal University, Huainan, Anhui, China 2Huaren Pension apartment, Huainan Huaren Hospital, Huainan, Anhui, China *Corresponding Author.

Abstract

Certified nursing assistants’ quality of caregiving for older adults exerts a positive impact on their occupational careers. Hygiene status of certified nursing assistants in nursing facilities may protect QOCD from positive working achievement. The impact of hygiene status of certified nursing assistants on QOCD for older adults were proved in the observational cross-sectional study. Care giving appraisal were used to survey 104 certified nursing assistants. Arbitrating effects were in-depth analyzed by SPSS 25.0 and Process V3.5. Hygiene status definitely unraveled quality of care delivery. Meanwhile, it was also found that hygiene status, and quality of care delivery were arbitrated in parallel by occupational ethics and working attitudes. Value of 0.469 was total indirect, explaining 49.5%. The innovative study introduces how hygiene status influences caregivers’ quality of care delivery in pension apartment. Hygiene status could provide certified nursing assistants with a favorable supervising and assessing positive occupational quality, enhance the occupational ethics and working attitudes, ultimately improve their quality of care delivery.

Keywords

Hygiene Status; Occupational Ethics; Working Attitudes; Quality of Care Delivery; Certified Nursing Assistants

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