Purpose: This study was a descriptive research to identify the relationships among burden from behavioral psychologicalsymptoms of dementia, dementia attitude, emotional labor and nurse’s caring behavior as well as to clarify factors thataffect caring behavior of nurses in long-term care hospital. Methods: For the research, this study collected data from July8 to July 20, in 2019 with 214 nurses who worked at 10 long-term care hospitals in Chungbuk. The data were analyzedusing descriptive statistics, t-tests, Mann-Whitney U test, ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, stepwise multipleregression with the SPSS 23.0 program. Results: Factors influencing caring behavior of nurses in long-term care hospitalwere dementia attitudes (β=.549, p<.001), burden from behavioral psychological symptoms of dementia (β=.242,p<.001) and marital status (β=.134, p=.017). These factors explained 33.9% of caring behavior (F=37.35, p<.001).
Conclusion: Dementia attitudes were confirmed to be the main variable influencing nurse’s caring behavior. Therefore,to improve the caring behavior of dementia patient, it is considered that the development of programs to improve dementiaattitudes and in-depth understanding regarding the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia is necessary.

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