Assessment of Iranian Nurses’ Knowledge and Anxiety Toward COVID-19 During the Current Outbreak in Iran

Abstract

Background:The world is affected by the Corona Virus Disease 2019 . Because of their direct contact with patients, health workers, especially nurses, play critical roles in the prevention of the COVID-19 outbreak through proper care and preventive procedures.Objectives: This study aimed to measure the awareness level of nurses in Shiraz, Iran, during the current COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire containing knowledge questions was distributed to 85 participants to complete. Results: More than half of the nurses (56.5%) had good knowledge about sources, transmission, symptoms, signs, prognosis, treatment, and mortality rate of COVID-19. The sources of information for the nurses were the World Health Organization and the Ministry of Health (55.29%), social applications (48.23%), and media (42.35%). Conclusions: Nurses had almost good knowledge of COVID-19. However, the WHO and the Ministry of Health still must provide more information for the medical staff for better control of the infectious disease.

Knowledge, Attitude, Practice and Psychological response toward COVID-19 among Nurses during the COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Ethiopia, 2020

“…In this study, 74% ( with CI; 70 to 78.1) of the participants had good knowledge regarding the COVID-19 outbreaks. This is higher than with the study conducted in Iran [14,17] and Saudi Arabia [18]. This might be due to the time of the study and study population difference.…”

“…Single population proportion formula was used and the following assumptions were made: 56.5 % nurses had good knowledge regarding COVID-19 from the previous studies conducted in Iran [10], 5% marginal error (d) with 95% confidence was employed as a parameter. By assuming 10%, nonresponse rate the final sample size was 415 nurses.…”

“…The sample size was proportionally allocated to each public Data collection tools and procedures A self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect the knowledge, attitude, practice, and psychological response towards the COVID-19 outbreak. The questionnaire was adopted from other published articles [10][11][12][13][14][15][16] and further modification was done to fit the local context and research objective. Two BSc holder nurses were recruited for data collection and one MSc holder nurse was recruited as a supervisor.…”

“…The total knowledge score for the nurses varied between 0 (with no correct answer) and 18 (for all correct answers), and a cut off level of ≤9was evaluated as poor knowledge, and >9 indicated good knowledge [13][14][15][16][17].…”

Knowledge, attitudes, anxiety, and preventive behaviors towards COVID-19 among health care providers in Yemen: an online cross-sectional survey

“…Our results are consistent with the ndings of Giao et al [9], who found that the majority of healthcare workers in Vietnam had a good level of knowledge about the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is also in line with the ndings of Nemati, Ebrahimi, and Nemati [19]. Regarding the respondents' attitude, the result showed that 85.00% of the respondents had optimistic attitudes towards COVID-19.…”