EFFECTIVENESS OF STRUCTURAL TEACHING PROGRAMME ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVENTION OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION AMONG STAFF NURSES IN SELECTED PAEDIATRIC HOSPITALS OF BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, INDIA
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 35
Abstract
BACKGROUND Nosocomial infection or hospital-acquired infections are those acquired during patient’s hospitalisation and not present or incubating at the time of admission. All infections diagnosed 48 hours after admission till 72 hours after discharge should be considered as nosocomial infection. Children’s immature immune system makes them prone to any type of infection when they visit the health care for their illness. They get infected with hospital infections, may occur due to improper standardised measures to prevent infection. So, nurses should have knowledge regarding the preventive measures to prevent infection. MATERIALS AND METHODS A quantitative research approach and one group of pre-test and post-test without a control group using pre-experimental design was used for the study. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Information was collected from 50 registered staff nurses using structured knowledge questionnaire. Structured Teaching Programme (STP) was implemented and post-test was conducted after 7 days of using same questionnaire. RESULTS The overall pre-test knowledge scores of staff nurses on prevention of nosocomial infection among children was found to be 42.5% and the overall post-test knowledge scores was found to be 85.1% and enhancement in the mean percentage knowledge score of 42.6% was found to be significant at 5% levels for all the aspects under study. There was significant association between post-test knowledge scores and selected demographic variables with professional experience (χ2= 8.42), experience in paediatric hospital (χ2= 9.98), in-service education (χ2= 7.23), source of information (χ2= 15.64), type of family (χ2= 7.75), family income (χ2= 8.69), religion (χ2= 7.15), ability to recognise nosocomial infection (χ2= 16.54), intimate the presence of nosocomial infection (χ2= 9.41) and surveillance of the ward (χ2= 5.99). CONCLUSION Overall findings showed that there is knowledge deficit among staff nurses regarding prevention of nosocomial infections in paediatric hospitals and structured teaching programme was effective in improving their knowledge.
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Jayalakshmi Narasimhaiah, Praveena Moorthy
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