U.S., March 28 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07494422) titled 'A Path to Prevention of Elder Abuse in Long-term Care. Prevalence Study Among Staff in Long-term Care.' on March 20.
Brief Summary: Globally, studies indicated that 16% of community dwelling older adults have been exposed to some form of abuse in the past 12 months. Furthermore, a global meta-analysis about AOP in long-term care facilities used staff as respondents and found that the pooled estimate of overall self-reported perpetration of staff to resident abuse during the past 12 months was 64.2% (95% CI 53.3-73.9%). Similar findings was also reported in a study from Norway in which the overall prevalence of observed staff-to-res...