Influence of COVID-19 knowledge, attitude on protective behavior among clinical nurses
10.3760/cma.j.cn115682-20200225-01057
- VernacularTitle:临床一线护士新型冠状病毒肺炎知识、态度现状和对防护行为习惯影响的研究
- Author:
Lei WANG
1
;
Shengxiao NIE
;
Chao SUN
;
Xia WANG
;
Zhenhui WANG
;
Huixiu HU
;
Xue YANG
Author Information
1. 北京医院护理部 国家老年医学中心 中国医学科学院老年医学研究院 100730
- Keywords:
Nurses;
COVID-19;
Knowledge;
Attitude;
Behavior
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2020;26(18):2405-2411
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To explore the COVID-19 knowledge and attitude, and its influences on protective behavior among clinical nurses so as to provide a reference for developing effective intervention strategy.Methods:Cross-sectional investigation was used to hospital-wide nurses selected by convenience sampling in February 2020 through sending a link of Wenjuanxing to work WeChat group of Nursing Department of Beijing Hospital and to circle of friends. Clinical nurses met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were invited to fill in the questionnaire. The self-designed COVID-19 related knowledge, attitude and behavior questionnaire was used to the investigation.Results:Among 750 clinical nurses, the self-assessment of COVID-19 related knowledge was≥7, with 70.04% for the average percentage. There were 91.6% of nurses with the confidence to fight with epidemic situation. After COVID-19 broke out, 94.1% of nurses strictly carried out the hand hygiene. Behavior changes in "wearing gloves when potentially contacting bloods, body fluids, secretions and excreta", "wearing goggles and protective clothing when bloods, body fluids, secretions and excreta potentially splashing" accounted for 89.2%, 81.5% and 71.6% respectively. Pearson correlation analysis showed that COVID-19 related knowledge of 750 nurses had no correlations with three dimensions "worrying about infecting COVID-19", "effectiveness of standard precaution" and "influencing factors of taking standard precaution" of attitude with no statistical differences ( P>0.05) . The results showed that the clinical knowledge of the first-line nurses of COVID-19 had no impact on the implementation of hand hygiene, but also had impacts on their attitudes ("views on dealing with the epidemic of COVID-19" dimension) and protective behavior habits ( P<0.05) ; their attitudes had no effect on the implementation of hand hygiene, and had impacts on other protective behavior habits ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:COVID-19 related knowledge of clinical nurses need to be improved and protective behavior should be changed further.
