Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices Regarding Prevention and Control of COVID-19 Infection in a Tertiary Level Hospital

Saha, Ashees Kumar; Mittra, China Rani; Khatun, Ronju Ara; Reza, Hasan Mahfuz

doi:10.3329/bjid.v7i00.50159

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“…Based on the results of the literature search found 21 articles (Table 1) generally assessed the knowledge, attitudes, practices, perceptions, anxiety, and psychological responses of nurses related to COVID-19. Four articles were found in China (Chen et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2020;Jin & Yi, 2020;Li et al, 2020), two in Arabian (Al-Dossary et al, 2020;Alreshidi, 2020), two in India (Adhikari et al, 2020;Patidar et al, 2020), one in Nepal (Kafle et al, 2020), three in Turkey (Aydin & Balci, 2020;Gumus & Basgun, 2020;Semerci et al,2020), one in Northern Ethiopia (Tadesse et al, 2020), two in Pakistan (Alwani et al, 2020;Zafar et al, 2020), one in Iran (Nemati et al, 2020), one in Lebanon (Saadeh et al,2020), one in Ghana (Buertey et al, 2020), one in Indonesia (Sahar et al, 2020), one in Bangladesh (Saha, et al, 2020), and one in Egypt (Goda Elbqry, 2020). The number of samples between 85-1.323 nurses, using a questionnaire as an instrument, the study used a cross-sectional study.…”

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“…Research in Indonesia, of 368 PHN nurses, nurses had good practices related to COVID-19, factors related to practice were gender, and resources (Sahar et al, 2020). Research in Bangladesh, 73.42% of nurses have good practice, 21.84% moderate practice, and 8.68% bad practice, there is a significant relationship between knowledge and practice of nurses (Saha et al, 2020). Research in Egypt, findings showed that the nurses studied had satisfactory practices related to COVID-19 (Goda Elbqry, 2020).…”

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“…There is a significant positive linear correlation between knowledge and attitudes, knowledge and practice, as well as attitudes and practices (Sahar et al, 2020). Research in Bangladesh, as many as 380 nurses, showed that 73.42% of nurses had good knowledge, 17.63% of nurses had knowledge is sufficient and 8.95% have poor knowledge about prevention and control of COVID-19 infection (Saha et al, 2020). A study in India, of 315 nurses in tertiary care hospitals, showed that out of 315 nurses, 62.2% had undergone related training.COVID-19.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

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COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new corona virus resembling pneumonia and first appeared in China's Wuhan Province in November 2019. Nurses play an important role in health care settings, including prevention, infection control, isolation, continuous patient monitoring, and have occupational risk as well as high risk of exposure in providing care during the COVID-19 outbreak. The purpose of this literature review is to identify nurses' knowledge, attitudes, practices, perceptions, and psychological responses to COVID-19. This research method is a literature review. Search for articles using six databases namely PubMed, Ebscohost, Chocrane Library, ClinicalKey for Nursing, Science Direct, and Gray Literature using keywords based on PICO. There are 1,149 articles identified from 2019-2021, was found 21 relevant articles that were discussed and analyzed. Results: The majority of nurses had a good level of knowledge, had positive attitudes, good practices, and positive perceptions of COVID-19. Nurses are experiencing stress and psychological responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: The majority of nurses have a good level of knowledge, but there are still nurses who have less knowledge about diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of COVID-19 infection, besides that nurse also experience psychological responses such as anxiety and depression related to COVID-19.

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

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“…The current study results regarding item analysis were quite similar with the previous study of Egypt, India, and Nepal. [30][31][32] The findings might be due to as anew emerging disease, sign and symptoms, mode of transmission, prevention and management of this fatal disease has not yet been identified. Treatment guidelines or nursing management has not been developed.…”

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Readiness of Nurses to Provide Nursing Care for COVID-19 Patients at COVID Dedicated Hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Gazi

Akhi

2021

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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Background: Coronavirus pandemic has become the leading cause of disability and death throughout the world. Nurses have a pivotal role in managing the COVID-19 patients across the globe including Bangladesh. Objective: The study was aimed to assess the level of nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice with regard to readiness for providing nursing care for COVID-19 patients at COVID-19 dedicated hospitals in Dhaka. Method: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data were collected from July, to September, 2020 using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 384 nurses were selected from four corona dedicated hospitals in Dhaka. Nurses’ readiness was measured by using paper and pencil questionnaire. Personal and professional characteristics knowledge, attitudes and practice related to COVID-19 questionnaires were used. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation-Coefficient. Results: Findings showed that nurses had moderate level of knowledge (M = 34.34.15, SD = 2.98), attitude (M = 27.58, SD = 3.45) and practice (M = 13.12, SD = 1.78) respectively. A significant negative correlation found between knowledge and attitude (r = -.178, p = .000). However, no significant relationship was to be found between attitude and practice and knowledge and practice regarding nurses’ readiness to provide nursing care to COVID-19 patients. Statistical analysis showed that nurses working at Kurmitola General Hospital (F = 9.47, p = .000) had better practice than those of other hospitals. Senior staff nurses did better practice (F = 21.765, p = .000) than those of other nurses. Conclusion: Nurses achieved moderate level of knowledge, attitude and practice. There was negative correlation between knowledge and attitude of nurses. In-service education programme can be developed and conducted to increase knowledge, attitude and practice regarding nurses readiness for caring of COVID-19 patients. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2020; 46(3): 161-167

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“…A study carried out in Bangladesh hospitals showed that nearly two-thirds percent of nurses (73.42%) held good knowledge and 73.42% of nurses had good practices towards prevention and control of COVID-19 infection 18,19 . As future healthcare providers, nursing students need to make themselves mentally strong by offering quality training and teaching that will affect the outcomes and will help them to take upcoming courageous steps.…”

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Knowledge on COVID-19 among Nursing Students of a Selected Nursing Institute of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Afroza Akhter,

Bilkis Banu,

Nasrin Akter

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IJPHRD

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Background: Bangladesh is trying to shape out coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with limited frontiers resources science March 2020. Among all frontier, Bangladeshi nurses are also playing a dynamic role to control infection through direct contact with COVID patients.Objective: This research aims to identify the level and predictors of poor knowledge of nursing students toward the COVID-19.Method: This study was a quantitative type of cross-sectional study with 150 participants randomly selected from 226 students of the Armed Forces Medical Institute located in Dhaka Cantonment of Dhaka city of Bangladesh. Data were collected by using a pre-tested questionnaire through a telephonic interview by trained and experienced interviewers. Analysis was done by using univariate, multivariate techniques followed by regression modeling.Result: Overall level of knowledge was observed poor (67.3%) among more than half of BSc nursing students. A greater part of nursing students got poor knowledge on the preventive measures to reduce transmission of COVID 19 (98.7%; 40.20±12.39) & management of COVID 19 (94.7%; 40.20±12.39). In terms of predicting the causes of poor knowledge, this study found that BSc nursing students of the second year (AOR= 2.53, p < 0.01) are more likely to have poor knowledge on COVID-19 compared to another educational group.Conclusion: Nurses are the frontiers to mitigate COVID-19 and manage the affected people effectively. Therefore, knowledge of them needs to be perfect to ensure the proper practice to prevent COVID-19. Thus, an enthusiastic and demonstrative learning system is required to make them knowledgeable enough against COVID-19

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Nurses’ Knowledge and Practices Regarding Prevention and Control of COVID-19 Infection in a Tertiary Level Hospital

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

Readiness of Nurses to Provide Nursing Care for COVID-19 Patients at COVID Dedicated Hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Knowledge on COVID-19 among Nursing Students of a Selected Nursing Institute of Dhaka City, Bangladesh

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