DOI: 10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w70
title: Predictors of medical staff’s knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of dysphagia assessment: A cross-sectional study

description: This study aimed to develop training resources and standardize the
 assessment of dysphagia in patients with stroke. This study was a
 cross-sectional study. A total of 430 nurses and doctors from four
 provinces(Guangdong Province, Hunan Province, Guangxi Province, and
 Shaanxi Province) who were selected by convenience sampling were invited
 to complete the questionnaire through WeChat, DingTalk, and Tencent QQ
 from May 23 to 31, 2022. A self-reported questionnaire was used to assess
 participants’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Behavior regarding dysphagia.
 Participants’ sociodemographic, training, and nursing experience were
 measured using the general information sheet and assessed as potential
 predictors of medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of
 dysphagia assessment. A multiple linear regression model was used to
 identify the factors predicting medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and
 Behavior regarding dysphagia assessment. The mean scores for Knowledge,
 Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessments were 92.654(SD 17.519).
 Multiple linear regression results indicated that experience in dysphagia
 patients’ nursing, related training for dysphagia, working years
 in the field of dysphagia-related diseases, specialized training in
 geriatric, swallowing & rehabilitation, and department
 related to neurology, rehabilitation & elderly were significant
 predictors, accounting for 35.1% of the variance in scores of medical
 staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior of dysphagia
 assessment. Our findings imply that nursing experience, training,
 and work for patients with swallowing disorders could have positive
 effects on the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of medical staff
 regarding dysphagia assessment. Hospital administrators should provide
 relevant resources, such as videos of dysphagia assessment, training
 centers for the assessment of dysphagia, and swallowing specialist nurses.
 It is important that health policies fully recognize the role of training
 and support systems in caring for people with dysphagia.
description: <strong>D</strong><strong>ata Collection and
 Analysis</strong> This study was approved by the
 ethics committee of the study hospital. Data were collected on May 23–31,
 2022. All participants were invited to complete the questionnaire through
 WeChat, DingTalk, and Tencent QQ from May 23 to May 31, 2022. A
 professional questionnaire survey platform that provides functions
 equivalent to Amazon Mechanical Turk called “Wenjuan Xing” was used to
 investigate. The researcher sent the questionnaire through WeChat,
 DingTalk, and Tencent QQ to colleagues and classmates to fill in and asked
 them to forward the questionnaire to their colleagues. Data were analyzed
 using SPSS for Windows, version 23. Statistical significance was set at p
 &lt; 0.05. The findings were summarized using descriptive statistics,
 univariate analysis, and dummy multiple regression analysis. The data were
 normally distributed, as assessed by skewness and kurtosis tests.
 Descriptive statistics (e.g., mean, SD, or n, %) were used to summarize
 the study variables. Univariate analysis (independent-sample t-test and
 one-way analysis of variance for categorical independent variables) was
 performed to explore the potential predictors of medical staff KAB for
 dysphagia assessment. A comparison analysis was conducted to analyze the
 differences in medical staff’s KAB for dysphagia assessment among
 Guangdong Province, Hunan Province, Guangxi Province, and Shaanxi
 Province.
description: # Predictors of medical staff’s knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of
 dysphagia assessment: A cross-sectional study
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w70](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w70) ## Description of the data and file structure Datasets included: 1\) Demographic characteristics * Province * Hospital level * Hospital type * Department * Positions * Title * Working years in the field of dysphagia-related diseases * Related training for dysphagia * Specialized training in geriatric, swallowing, and rehabilitation * Experience in nursing patients with dysphagia * Q stands for variable name. * DQ represents the dummy variable of the corresponding variable. 2\) Questionnaire scores * Medical staff’s Knowledge of dysphagia assessment. Scores were obtained from the Questionnaire on medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessment. Knowledge is one of the dimensions of the questionnaire. The higher the score, the higher the level of knowledge. * Medical staff’s Attitude of dysphagia assessment. Scores were obtained from the Questionnaire on medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessment. Attitude is one of the dimensions of the questionnaire. The higher the score, the more positive the attitude. * Medical staff’s Behavior of dysphagia assessment. Scores were obtained from the Questionnaire on medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessment. Behavior is one of the dimensions of the questionnaire. The higher the score, the better the behavior. * Medical staff’s KAB of dysphagia assessment. Scores were obtained from the Questionnaire on medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessment. The higher the score, the better the knowledge of swallowing disorder assessment, the more willing to do dysphagia assessment, and the better the assessment behavior. * K stands for knowledge dimension score. * A stands for attitude dimension score. * P stands for behavioral dimension score. * KAP=K+A+P. It stands for Score of Questionnaire on medical staff’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior of dysphagia assessment. * Missing values are denoted by NA.