Knowledge, attitudes and practices of registered nurses regarding the spread of nosocomial infections and the impact of organizational support

Kamunge, E; Cahill, Terrence; Zipp, Genevieve Pinto; Parasher, Raju K.

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“…These study findings were supported by Kamunge who found that 347 (98.65) respondents were knowledgeable about alcohol based formulations. 6 The study findings showed that nurses have good knowledge about spread of nosocomial infection since 41(34.2%) were agree and 27(22.5%) were disagree that they follow the recommended guidelines for use of alcohol based solutions or other antiseptics before and after each patient contact. These finding are supported with literature where sufficient practice about control and prevention of infection from one patient to another patient and these practices should applied to every patient if patient has an infectious disease or not.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…It is the ultimate responsibility of health care providers to ensure safe and healthy environment for all the patients and for this all health care professionals must be well trained in controlling and preventing hospital acquired infection. 6 Published research data shows a great difference of nosocomial infections between developing and developed countries. It is about 15.5% in developing countries in comparison to 7.1% in Europe and 4.5% in USA.…”

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Nosocomial Infections: Awareness and Practices of Nurses Regarding its Spread in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

Mudassar¹,

Adeel²,

Ali³

et al. 2019

IJCMR

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Introduction:The infections acquired in patients during admission in a hospital and the patients have no evidence of infection before admission in hospital are known as nosocomial infections or hospital acquired infections. The etiological organism may be bacterial, fungal, viral or parasitic, found in the air or on hospital items; spreading from one person to another person. The main objective of current study was to assess the knowledge and practices of nurses with respect to the spread of hospital infections in a tertiary hospital of Lahore. Material and methods:A cross sectional, descriptive study was carried out in a tertiary hospital of Lahore, Pakistan during a period of four months from June 2018 to September 2018. Sample size was 120 and simple random sampling was done. Data analysis was done by SPSS version 21.Results: Most of the participants 115(95.8%) were female and 5(4.2%) were male. It was revealed that nurses had enough awareness about the spread of hospital infections. Out of 120 participants, 39 (32.5%) were agree and 34(28.3%) were strongly agree that they are aware of handwashing guidelines, but their practices to reduce the spread of hospital infection were not good since 38(31.7%) were neutral and 9(7.5%) were disagree to follow the recommended guidelines for using alcohol based solutions or other antiseptics before and after each contact with patients. Conclusion:Nurses had a good knowledge regarding the spread of nosocomial infections, use of safety precautions and use of alcohol based formulations but their practices for reducing the spread of hospital infections were not up to satisfactory level.

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Nosocomial Infections: Awareness and Practices of Nurses Regarding its Spread in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

Mudassar¹,

Adeel²,

Ali³

et al. 2019

IJCMR

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“…Such infections are neither present nor incubating prior to a patient's admission to a given hospital. NIs represent a universally serious health problem and a major concern for the safety of both patients and the health care providers [1][2][3][4]. Although the incidence rate for nosocomial infection vary from country to country, at any given time, almost seven patients from developed countries to ten patients from developing countries out of each100 patients admitted to hospitals gain at least one kind of nosocomial infections [5].…”

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Knowledge and practices of nurses regarding nosocomial infection control measures in private hospitals in Sana’a City, Yemen

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Background: In the Yemeni healthcare setting, basic infection control measures are necessary to reduce the rates of hospital-associated infections. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from April to May 2016. A non-probability sample of 100 nurses working in the private hospitals located in the capital city of Yemen was selected as study participants. A 45-item questionnaire was used to assess knowledge and practices regarding nosocomial infection control measures among the study subjects. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS (version 22.0). Results: The highest percentage of nurses were males (61.2%) and aging between 25 and above (71.8%) and had 3 years nursing diploma (60%), less than 5 years of employment in the hospitals (56.5%), relatively high training course about nosocomial infections (NIs) (64.7%), and working experience in infection control (78.8%). Most of the nurses (87%) had a fair level of knowledge, while only 4% of them had a good level of knowledge of preventive measures of nosocomial infections. The results also revealed that the majority of the nurses (71%) had fair practices about nosocomial infections whereas 26% of them had good practices and only 3% of them had poor practices. Conclusion: The gaps in knowledge and practices regarding NI control measures indicate the need to establish a related health care policy regarding NIs and implement a regular training program to upgrade and refresh the nurses' knowledge and practices regarding NI control measures.

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“…Finally, the internal consistency of the stigma scale was evaluated using Cronbach's alpha with a threshold of 0.70 (38,39) and a reliability indicator, intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC). We calculated the ICCs of each subscale to gauge the test-retest reliability of the answers to the questionnaire.…”

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French Stigma Scale: French translation and validation of a stigma scale to measure diabetes-related stigma

Ouedraogo¹,

Pana²,

Dipankui³

et al. 2020

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Context: In recent years internalized stigma, or self-stigma, has been the focus of a number of studies in people living with chronic diseases and mental illness, as it can negatively impact access to care and quality of life. However, few studies have looked at self-stigma experienced by people living with diabetes, specifically among immigrants, a population with a higher risk of stigmatization. Furthermore, the majority of the tools used to measure this type of stigma are only available in English. In order to assess the level of self-stigma among francophone populations living with diabetes, it is imperative to possess a specific French-language tool allowing the measurement of self-stigma in this population. Objective: The aim of this study was to translate and validate a French version of the Self-Stigma Scale-Short (SSS-S), a tool for assessing internalized stigma, in the Canadian immigrant population living with diabetes. Methods: The reliability and validity of the French stigma scale were tested in a sample of 30 immigrant patients living with type 2 diabetes recruited using the volunteer method. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed to assess the factors formulated in the original scale, the SSS-S. To evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale, Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency and intraclass correlation coefficients were used to assess reliability. Results: The total mean score of the scale obtained for the study sample was 16.57 (± 5.10), showing a low level of stigma. Analysis of the scores indicated good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.86) and excellent reliability (ICC = 0.94) for the full scale. The results of the exploratory factor analysis confirmed the original three-dimensional structure of the SSS-S, despite an unsatisfactory confirmatory factor analysis. (Pr > chi-squared of the base model < 0.05, RMSEA > 0.06, for both models). Conclusion: The French stigma scale is a valid and reliable tool that can be used to assess internalized stigma in patients living with diabetes.

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of registered nurses regarding the spread of nosocomial infections and the impact of organizational support

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Nosocomial Infections: Awareness and Practices of Nurses Regarding its Spread in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

Nosocomial Infections: Awareness and Practices of Nurses Regarding its Spread in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Lahore, Pakistan

Knowledge and practices of nurses regarding nosocomial infection control measures in private hospitals in Sana’a City, Yemen

French Stigma Scale: French translation and validation of a stigma scale to measure diabetes-related stigma

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