Knowledge of Clostridium difficile infection among UK health-care workers: development of a knowledge assessment tool
| Autor: | Mark Rodrigues, Richard R. W. Brady, Cat Graham, A.P. Gibb, Carol Rae, Ian R. Poxton, Richard Harrison |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Medical staff Nurses Disease Physicians Surveys and Questionnaires Health care medicine Humans Infection control Knowledge assessment Cross Infection Infection Control Clostridioides difficile business.industry Infection control nurse General Medicine Middle Aged Clostridium difficile United Kingdom Family medicine Practice Guidelines as Topic Cohort Clostridium Infections Education Medical Continuing Female Clinical Competence Guideline Adherence business |
| Zdroj: | Scottish Medical Journal. 57:124-130 |
| ISSN: | 2045-6441 0036-9330 |
| Popis: | Doctors’ knowledge provides the basis to support good practice in infection prevention and control. However, there exists a paucity of validated knowledge assessment tools that can be reliably employed to identify poor knowledge levels of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) within populations of doctors, preventing the effective identification of knowledge deficiencies and focused targeting of educational interventions. Here, we describe a development process to validate a novel CDI knowledge assessment tool for doctors. Two previously published CDI knowledge questionnaires were amalgamated to produce a combined questionnaire. Content was further evaluated by a panel of CDI experts, producing the ‘Lothian’ questionnaire. These questionnaires were tested in control populations comprising either infection control nurse (ICN) specialists or non-clinically trained individuals, and a cohort of medical staff. We compared the efficacy of the ‘Lothian’ questionnaire against that of previous questionnaire reports. We found that all of the questionnaires studied significantly discriminated between non-clinical and clinical populations (ICNs and medical staff) ( P < 0.001) and had similar levels of sensitivity and specificity in discrimination between these targeted populations. This study describes the development of a robust CDI knowledge assessment tool that can be used to evaluate knowledge levels among doctors, compare populations and assist the targeting of educational interventions and plot trends following such interventions. |
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