Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding Prevention and Control of COVID-19 among Nurses of Tertiary Care Hospital

Paudel, Radha; Shrestha, Sarita; Gurung, Laxmi

doi:10.3126/jcmsn.v17i2.34328

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“…All most all respondents (97.0%) in this study provided correct response for the mode of transmission. This finding was consistent with the study result in Indonesia 9 (95.8%) and nearly consistent with another study findings 81%, in Nepal 7 but contradicted with the study findings of Iran (56.5%). 4 The gold standard test for COVID-19 is PCR.…”

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Knowledge and perceived barriers for care provision regarding COVID-19 among hospital nurses in Nepal

Adhikari,

Mahato,

Acharya

et al. 2023

Nep. Med. Coll. J.

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COVID-19 pandemic is significantly affecting the overall health and healthcare system globally. It has not shown mercy to Nepal either. All the health facilities are full of COVID-19 patients. Almost all death from COVID-19, has occurred in hospital. Adequate knowledge of nurses regarding the source, transmission, symptoms, and preventive measures of COVID-19 helps to provide effective care and prevent spreading infections from patients to patients, and nurses to patients. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the knowledge regarding COVID-19 and perceived barriers for care provision regarding COVID-19 patients among hospital nurses in Nepal. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in different COVID-19 care designated hospitals of Nepal. Data were collected by using self-administered validated questionnaire through online survey. Descriptive analysis was done by using SPSS-16. More than 80% of nurses had adequate knowledge regarding symptoms, route of transmission, vulnerable population and preventive measures of COVID- 19 and only 15.0% had got training related to COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses perceived negligence of the patients and community people on COVID-19 prevention (84.6%), fear of being infected and carrier to family and community while contacting with patients (80.0%), long duty hour (75.0%), inadequately supply of personal protective equipment and insufficient institutional preparedness (74.0%) were the major barriers for providing care of COVID-19 patients. Thus, hospital authority, nursing administration and nursing professionals’ organizations should play an important role in organizing training to nurses and awareness program to community people. It is also essential in providing required supplies, and facilitates the motivating environment for effective care and prevention of COVID-19.

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“…The study showed that only 15.2% of the participants had got COVID 19 related training. This finding was inconsistent with other studies conducted in China (64.6%) 1 and Nepal (89.4%), 7 respectively. It might be due to the difference in the study population; this study was conducted 8 and in Indonesia 85.6%.…”

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Knowledge and perceived barriers for care provision regarding COVID-19 among hospital nurses in Nepal

Adhikari,

Mahato,

Acharya

et al. 2023

Nep. Med. Coll. J.

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“…This result is consistent with a study conducted in Nepal in which nurses had a positive attitude about COVID-19 prevention and control measures. 9 In addition, a study in Nigeria found that healthcare workers, including nurses, used preventive measures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection. 10 Moreover, in Saudi Arabia, the majority of nurses employed personal protective methods.…”

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Protective measures against COVID-19 for nurses and midwives in Bangladesh

Uddin¹,

Basri²,

Reberio³

2022

NCOAJ

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COVID-19 is a devastating disease with worldwide effects. To control and prevent COVID-19 and save lives, preventive and protective measures have been encouraged globally. Nurses and midwives have been among the most vulnerable groups to COVID-19 infection because their jobs involve heightened exposure to COVID-19-infected patients. This survey study aimed to investigate protective measures against COVID-19 for nurses and midwives. This was a descriptive quantitative survey study. The sample was 1706 nurses and midwives. A self-reported survey questionnaire was used to collect the data on protective measures against COVID-19 for nurses and midwives. Data were analysed through descriptive statistics. The study found that the majority of nurses and midwives did not receive COVID-19 training. Despite this, they were willing to care for COVID-19 patients and aware of methods for preventing COVID-19 infection. In addition, most participants had taken COVID-19 preventive precautions. Almost two-thirds of participants were vaccinated against COVID-19, and a vast majority had used appropriate PPE as a protective device against it.

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Awareness of personal safety among frontline healthcare workers working in COVID ward of BPKIHS during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study authors

Khadka,

Parajuli,

Mehta

et al. 2024

Annals of Medicine &Amp; Surgery

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Background: Frontline healthcare workers are at higher risk for COVID-19 infection and due to lack of availability of adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), lack of knowledge and good practices results in more deaths each year due to occupational accidents and diseases. Objective: The aim of the study was to assess the awareness of personal safety, the association between the level of awareness with selected socio-demographic variables and to identify the correlation between knowledge and practice of personal safety. Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted among 106 Frontline Healthcare workers who have worked in the COVID ward. The study was conducted between August 7th, 2022, and June 2023. A convenient sampling technique was used for sample selection. A validated self-administered questionnaire was used to assess the awareness of personal safety. Descriptive statistics (mean, SD frequency and percentage) and inferential statistics (Chi-square and Spearman’s correlation rank) were used for the data analysis. Results: Among the respondents, there were 38 doctors and 68 nurses. The majority of the respondents had a moderate level of knowledge (79.2%) and practice (52.8%) with a mean score of 13.52±2.10 and 14.51± 2.35 respectively. Doctors have slightly higher levels of knowledge (14.01±1.62) and practice (14.57±2.07) as compared to Nurses (13.19±2.27, 14.48±2.5) respectively. Knowledge was found to be associated with the education level and age of the respondents and practice has a significant association with training/demonstration with a P-value of <0.05. Knowledge and practice were found to have a partial positive correlation (r value of 0.27). Conclusion: This study concluded that those having higher levels of education had good levels of knowledge and those who have attended formal or informal training or demonstrations regarding personal safety had good practices regarding personal safety.

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding Prevention and Control of COVID-19 among Nurses of Tertiary Care Hospital

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Knowledge and perceived barriers for care provision regarding COVID-19 among hospital nurses in Nepal

Knowledge and perceived barriers for care provision regarding COVID-19 among hospital nurses in Nepal

Protective measures against COVID-19 for nurses and midwives in Bangladesh

Awareness of personal safety among frontline healthcare workers working in COVID ward of BPKIHS during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study authors

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