Nurses' knowledge, attitude and behaviour on medical adhesive related skin injury in neonatal department: A survey

Abstract

Medical adhesive related skin injury (MARSI) is the symptom that after the removal of medical adhesive, the skin appears erythema lasting for 30 min or even longer, with or without blisters, erosion or tears and other skin abnormalities (de Oliveira Marcatto et al., 2022).In recent years, with the wide application of medical adhesive in medical care environment, the skin damage caused by it has become increasingly prominent. Previous studies (Mishra et al., 2021;Wang et al., 2019) show that MARSI is the primary factor of skin damage in neonates, and its incidence is 8.04%-17.68%. Therefore, it is the focus of neonatal skin care to identify high-risk neonates with MARSI and provide timely nursing care.At present, the researches in the field of neonatal MARSI are insufficient. Most of the existing research covers newborns in a larger paediatric field to discuss the prevalence of MARSI. Many studies (Jiaobo et al., 2017;Ying et al., 2017) have showed that nurses' awareness of MARSI is at a low level. There is a lack of guidelines and preventive measures to guide nurses how to correctly select and use medical adhesives to reduce MARSI, and nurses are the key to avoid the occurrence or continuous development of MARSI. Therefore, this study investigated the status quo of knowledge, attitude and