Factors associated with knowledge of the nursing staff at a teaching hospital on blood transfusion

Abstract

Objective: to determine whether there is an association between knowledge of the nursing professionals about blood transfusion and the variables related to the professional aspects. Method: this is an observational, cross-sectional and quantitative study, carried out at a large general teaching hospital. The sample consisted of 209 nursing professionals, obtained by simple random sampling. For data collection, a checklist was used. In the univariate analysis, descriptive statistics and central trend and dispersion measures were used. In the bivariate analysis, Student's t-Test, analysis of variance and Pearson's correlation were used. To determine the predictors, multiple linear regression was applied. The Institutional Review Board (Opinion number 2434) approved the study. Results: the overall average knowledge score was 52.66%; in the Pre-transfusion Step, it corresponded to 53.38%; in the Transfusion Step 51.25% and, in the Post-transfusion Step, 62.68%. The factors related to knowledge were professional category and received training and/or guidance to accomplish the transfusion process (p<0.01). Conclusion: this study showed the influence of training and guidance on the knowledge and provided a diagnosis to identify the professionals' difficulties regarding the transfusion process.

Knowledge of Blood Transfusion among Nurses at Hospital Pulau Pinang: Nursing Responsibilities and Patient Management Related to Transfusion Reactions

“…In this study, the lowest knowledge score was recorded for the "during and post-transfusion nursing responsibilities and management of adverse reactions" section (mean = 67.14%). This coincided with results of another study in which the lowest score was recorded for the "during transfusion step" (12). None of the nurses in the current study scored 100%, which agreed with previous studies conducted in the United Arab Emirates and Turkey (7,13).…”

“…The mean score (67.14%, SD = 16.71) for Section 4 was lower than that of the other sections. Eighty-three percent of subjects (n = 154, 83.3%) were able to answer at least four items correctly, and only seven of them mean knowledge score in this study was higher than that reported in other studies (7)(8)12). This could be due to the low number of knowledge items assessed in this study (22 items) compared to others (> 35 items) (7-8, 12), as fewer items increased the weight of each question on the 100% scale.…”

“…However, the level of knowledge varies among individuals and healthcare centres. Although studies to evaluate nurses' knowledge of blood transfusion have been conducted in other countries (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12), few have taken place in Malaysia. Thus, this study addresses a knowledge gap regarding nurses' knowledge and transfusion safety in the local clinical setting.…”

Blood transfusion in Intensive Care Units: knowledge of the nursing team*

“…The three predictor variables of this study were: Trained or specific guidance for blood transfusion; Participation in specific training for blood transfusion; and Self-confidence to the procedure, which meet the discussions in the literature involving the theme (8,17). It is worth emphasizing the need to encourage the training and qualification of these professionals from the training courses (19,20).…”

Nurses' Knowledge Assessment Regarding Blood Transfusion to Ensure Patient Safety

“…In addition Diakité, Diawara, and Tchogang, 2012 (20) ,who found that about half of participants had insufficient knowledge related to blood transfusion. Also this result was consistent with Kabinda, et al, 2014 ( 21 ) who clarified that because of lack of continuous and regular training in blood transfusion result in insufficient knowledge among nursing staff about principle of blood safety.…”