Assessment of Ethical Ideals and Ethical Manners in Care of Older People

Marianne Frilund, Lisbeth Fagerström, Katie Eriksson and Patrik Eklund

Nursing Research and Practice, 2013, vol. 2013, 1-11

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The aim of this study is to establish structured clusters and well-defined ontological entities (nodes) describing ethical values as both ideal and opportunity for ethical manner as perceived by the caregiver. In this study, we use Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) to analyse ethical values (ethos) and ethical manners in daily work with older people. Material is based on questionnaire data collected by the instrument for the self-assessment of individual ethos in the care of older people (ISAEC) in spring 2007 in a municipality in Western Finland. This study is unique in its kind, both concerning the selected approach and methodological questions. BBNs have not been used significantly in nursing research, nor are there any studies that examine the ethical possibilities with focus on the probable effects upon changing conditions.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1155/2013/374132

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