Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Regarding COVID-19 among Community Health Nurses.
| Autor: | J, Joy Priyadharishini, S, Jebah Terina, Sadan, Vathsala |
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NURSING audit
COMMUNITY health nurses WORK experience (Employment) COVID-19 NURSES' attitudes ACADEMIC medical centers RESEARCH evaluation NURSING schools CHRISTIANITY RESEARCH methodology CROSS-sectional method SELF-evaluation NURSING practice PEARSON correlation (Statistics) DESCRIPTIVE statistics SCALE analysis (Psychology) CHI-squared test STATISTICAL sampling EDUCATIONAL attainment |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Nursing Education; Jan-Mar2022, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p73-79, 7p |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Corona Virus Disease 2019 also known as COVID-19 is a rapidly expanding pandemic caused by a novel human Corona Virus (SARS-COV-2). This is posing a threat at global level and needs an urgent intervention and control measures. The community health nurses are front line warriors in providing primary health care. The knowledge and attitude greatly influences the behaviour pattern of people, therefore this descriptive cross-sectional study assessed the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice regarding COVID-19 among Community Health Nurses at College of Nursing, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. Methods: Using total enumeration sampling method, a structured self-administered questionnaire was given to all the Community Health Nurses and data were obtained. The questionnaire assesses the demographic and personal profile of participants, Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice regarding COVID-19, which is developed by the investigator using the WHO module on "Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19, methods for detection, prevention, response and control" and CDC -- Corona Virus Disease 2019 modules. Conclusion: This study reveals that 10.8% among the community health nurses had adequate knowledge regarding COVID-19, 44.2% had favourable attitude towards COVID-19 and 98.3% had adequate practices related to prevention of COVID-19. There was a significant correlation found between Knowledge and Practice (p= 0.002), Attitude and Practice (p= 0.001) of the Community Health Nurses which was statistically significant. There were significant association found between the demographic variables such as qualification (p=0.020) and the level of knowledge, education (p=0.015) and knowledge and years of experience of the community health nurses (p=0.009) and their attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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