Fall prevention activities and associated factors among nurses in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

The overall and average scores of the variables knowledge, self-efficacy in fall prevention, the practice environment, and fall prevention activities of nurses (N = 90)_

Variables (items)	Total score
	Possible range	Actual range	M	SD
Fall prevention knowledge (11)	0–11	0–10	4.67	2.50
Self-efficacy in fall prevention (11)	11–66	11–66	49.43	8.55
The nursing practice environment (10)	10–40	10–40	29.69	4.00
Fall prevention activities (20)	20–100	47–100	75.58	9.96

Correlation between knowledge, self-efficacy in fall prevention, practice environment, and fall prevention activities of nurses at the hospital (N = 90)_

Pearson correlation	Fall prevention activities
	r	p-value
Fall prevention knowledge	-0.093	0.384
Self-efficacy in fall prevention	0.614	<0.001**
Practice environment	0.251	0.017*

Differences in fall prevention activities between some personal characteristics of nurses (N = 90)_

Characteristics	Fall prevention activity
	Frequency	M	SD	p-value
Age (years old)				0.618a
≤30	42	3.80	0.48
31-45	41	3.80	0.49
≥46	7	3.60	0.67
Gender				0.028b
Male	21	3.57	0.48
Female	69	3.84	0.49
Professional qualifications				0.145a
Intermediate	8	3.87	0.40
College degree	59	3.70	0.53
University	23	3.94	0.42
Work experience (years)				0.883a
<3	14	3.85	0.56
3-5	14	3.78	0.42
5-10	23	3.72	0.51
10	39	3.78	0.51
Place of work				0.017b
Internal medicine	37	3.93	0.46
Surgical medicine	53	3.67	0.50
The number of patients taking care per day				0.808b
≤10	37	3.76	0.94
>10	53	3.79	0.51
Experience with fallen patients				0.232b
Yes	72	3.81	0.50
No	18	3.65	0.47
Fall prevention training				0.513b
Yes	84	3.77	0.51
No	6	3.90	0.30
Number of times to participate in fall prevention training/year				0.030b
Once	72	3.74	0.53
Twice	12	3.97	0.28

Frequency and percentage of participants classified according to the personal characteristics (N = 90)_

Personal characteristics	Frequency (n)	Percentage (%)
Age (years old), Median = 31.00, Range (26.00-38.00), Min = 23, Max = 55
≤30	42	46.67
31-45	41	45.55
≥46	7	7.78
Gender
Male	21	23.33
Female	69	76.67
Professional qualifications
Intermediate	8	8.89
College	59	65.56
University	23	25.55
Work experience (years)
<3	14	15.56
3-5	14	15.56
5-10	23	25.55
≥10	39	43.33
Place of work
Internal medicine department	37	41.11
Surgical medicine department	53	58.89
The number of patients taking care per day
≤10	37	41.11
>10	53	58.89
Experience with patient falls
Yes	72	80.00
No	18	20.00
Fall prevention training
Yes	84	93.33
Once a year	72	85.71
Twice a year	12	14.29
No	6	6.67