Knowledge Regarding COVID-19 among Registered Nurses of Pokhara, Nepal

Kafle, Akriti; Pahari, Sirjana Pandit; Khanal, Sanjay Nath; Baral, Kushalata; Pathak, Kabita; Baral, Suraj; Kafle, Anil; Dahal, Maginsh

doi:10.46405/ejms.v2i2.88

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“…handle other infection like MERSA, SARS, NIPAH, etcare supposed to be well trained in handling a variety of infections (10).Similar findings were observed in thisstudy that those whohandles of other infection had higheraspects of knowledge, attitude, and practice.It is well established fact that training improves knowledge, practice, and attitude(11,12). The same observations were observed among nurses while handling COVID dead body care except for practices.…”

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“Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients’ dead body care in a tertiary care hospital”

Saini

Panda

Singh

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Title: Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients dead body care in a tertiary care hospital. Authors: Girraj Saini, Mahendra Singh, Prasan Kumar Panda, Manish Kumar Sharma, Pankaj Punjot, Raviprakash Meshram, Puneet Kumar Gupta. Aim: To know the dead body care of COVID 19 patients. Objective: 1.To determine health care professionals, knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 dead body care. 2. To find the association of knowledge, attitude, practice with selected demographic variables. Background: COVID -19 was a global pandemic and it was a serious note for health care professionals from many aspects. The virus was infective and causes serious infections to patients which were easily transmitted, hence specific dead body care is required for such kinds of patients. To keep this background in mind the study was conducted to identify the knowledge, practice and attitude towards COVID-19 dead body care among nurses. Methodology: A cross sectional survey based study was done on 282 samples.Quantitative research design with purposive sampling technique data was collected for knowledge,attitude, and practice. Result: Knowledge, attitude and practice were assessed and association was done with demographic profile. Hence the good knowledge, attitude and practice were observed in experienced and trained nurses (p value<0.005. Whereas no significant changes were observed with age, gender and education qualification. Conclusion: Overall knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID -19 dead body care were moderate to good. But it was important to identify the gap as it was a global pandemic and higher chances of spreading of infection. Keywords: Contact transmission, Corona virus disease 2019, Dead body, Healthcare workers, and Questionnaire study.

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“Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients’ dead body care in a tertiary care hospital”

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“…Based on the results of the literature search found 21 articles (Table 1) generally assessed the knowledge, attitudes, practices, perceptions, anxiety, and psychological responses of nurses related to COVID-19. Four articles were found in China (Chen et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2020;Jin & Yi, 2020;Li et al, 2020), two in Arabian (Al-Dossary et al, 2020;Alreshidi, 2020), two in India (Adhikari et al, 2020;Patidar et al, 2020), one in Nepal (Kafle et al, 2020), three in Turkey (Aydin & Balci, 2020;Gumus & Basgun, 2020;Semerci et al,2020), one in Northern Ethiopia (Tadesse et al, 2020), two in Pakistan (Alwani et al, 2020;Zafar et al, 2020), one in Iran (Nemati et al, 2020), one in Lebanon (Saadeh et al,2020), one in Ghana (Buertey et al, 2020), one in Indonesia (Sahar et al, 2020), one in Bangladesh (Saha, et al, 2020), and one in Egypt (Goda Elbqry, 2020). The number of samples between 85-1.323 nurses, using a questionnaire as an instrument, the study used a cross-sectional study.…”

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“…Research in India, of 380 novice nurses working in COVID-19 units, shows that a large number of participants are sufficiently aware of the basic elements of COVID-19, namely etiological factors, incubation period, clinical symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment (Patidar et al, 2020). Research in Nepal, with a number of respondents with 750 nurses, shows that most respondents have a moderate level of knowledge (44.8%), followed by a low level of knowledge of respondents (29.2%) and the rest (26.0%) had good knowledge about COVID 19 (Kafle et al, 2020).…”

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Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

2021

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COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new corona virus resembling pneumonia and first appeared in China's Wuhan Province in November 2019. Nurses play an important role in health care settings, including prevention, infection control, isolation, continuous patient monitoring, and have occupational risk as well as high risk of exposure in providing care during the COVID-19 outbreak. The purpose of this literature review is to identify nurses' knowledge, attitudes, practices, perceptions, and psychological responses to COVID-19. This research method is a literature review. Search for articles using six databases namely PubMed, Ebscohost, Chocrane Library, ClinicalKey for Nursing, Science Direct, and Gray Literature using keywords based on PICO. There are 1,149 articles identified from 2019-2021, was found 21 relevant articles that were discussed and analyzed. Results: The majority of nurses had a good level of knowledge, had positive attitudes, good practices, and positive perceptions of COVID-19. Nurses are experiencing stress and psychological responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Conclusion: The majority of nurses have a good level of knowledge, but there are still nurses who have less knowledge about diagnosis, prevention, treatment and control of COVID-19 infection, besides that nurse also experience psychological responses such as anxiety and depression related to COVID-19.

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“…The current study results regarding item analysis were quite similar with the previous study of Egypt, India, and Nepal. [30][31][32] The findings might be due to as anew emerging disease, sign and symptoms, mode of transmission, prevention and management of this fatal disease has not yet been identified. Treatment guidelines or nursing management has not been developed.…”

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Readiness of Nurses to Provide Nursing Care for COVID-19 Patients at COVID Dedicated Hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Gazi

Akhi

2021

Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull

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Background: Coronavirus pandemic has become the leading cause of disability and death throughout the world. Nurses have a pivotal role in managing the COVID-19 patients across the globe including Bangladesh. Objective: The study was aimed to assess the level of nurses’ knowledge, attitude and practice with regard to readiness for providing nursing care for COVID-19 patients at COVID-19 dedicated hospitals in Dhaka. Method: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. Data were collected from July, to September, 2020 using a self-administered questionnaire. A total of 384 nurses were selected from four corona dedicated hospitals in Dhaka. Nurses’ readiness was measured by using paper and pencil questionnaire. Personal and professional characteristics knowledge, attitudes and practice related to COVID-19 questionnaires were used. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one way ANOVA and Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation-Coefficient. Results: Findings showed that nurses had moderate level of knowledge (M = 34.34.15, SD = 2.98), attitude (M = 27.58, SD = 3.45) and practice (M = 13.12, SD = 1.78) respectively. A significant negative correlation found between knowledge and attitude (r = -.178, p = .000). However, no significant relationship was to be found between attitude and practice and knowledge and practice regarding nurses’ readiness to provide nursing care to COVID-19 patients. Statistical analysis showed that nurses working at Kurmitola General Hospital (F = 9.47, p = .000) had better practice than those of other hospitals. Senior staff nurses did better practice (F = 21.765, p = .000) than those of other nurses. Conclusion: Nurses achieved moderate level of knowledge, attitude and practice. There was negative correlation between knowledge and attitude of nurses. In-service education programme can be developed and conducted to increase knowledge, attitude and practice regarding nurses readiness for caring of COVID-19 patients. Bangladesh Med Res Counc Bull 2020; 46(3): 161-167

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Knowledge Regarding COVID-19 among Registered Nurses of Pokhara, Nepal

Cited by 7 publications

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“Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients’ dead body care in a tertiary care hospital”

“Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients’ dead body care in a tertiary care hospital”

Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, Perception, and Psychological Response of Nurses Regarding Covid-19; Literature Review

Readiness of Nurses to Provide Nursing Care for COVID-19 Patients at COVID Dedicated Hospitals in Dhaka, Bangladesh

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