Lace M K Padilla, Maia Powell, Matthew Kay, Jessica Hullman
Uncertain About Uncertainty: How Qualitative Expressions of Forecaster Confidence Impact Decision-Making With Uncertainty Visualizations
Frontiers in psychology
inpatients need recognize fall risk accurately objectively nurses need assess patients perceive fall risk identify factors influence patients fall risk perception study aims explore congruency nurses fall risk assessment patients perception fall risk identify factors related noncongruency fall risk descriptive crosssectional design used study enrolled 386 patients admitted acute care hospital six nurses assessed participants fall risk congruency classified using morse fall scale nurses fall risk perception questionnaire patients nurses fall risk assessments patients fall risk perceptions congruent 57 participants underestimation patients risk falling associated gender women long hospitalization period department orthopedics low fall efficacy history falls hospitalization overestimation fall risk associated age group gender men department high health literacy score multiple logistic regression factors related underestimation fall risk hospitalization period department factors related overestimation fall risk health literacy department nurses consider patients perception fall risk incorporate fall prevention interventions nurses need evaluate whether patients perceive risk falling consistently patients underestimate overestimate fall risk may helpful consider clinical fallrelated characteristics together evaluating perception fall risk