Knowledge and Compliance Regarding Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) Prevention Among Public and Private Hospital Intensive Care Unit Nurses
Journal Title: THE THERAPIST - Year 2022, Vol 3, Issue 02
Abstract
CLABSIs are some of the utmost fatal hospital-acquired infections. CLABSIs cost up to $45,000 per infection around the world. CDC reported that in U.S. hospitals around 41,000 preventable CLABSIs occur every year, so the magnitude of the problem could be worse in Pakistan where there are still gaps in documenting the hospital data. Objective: To identify the nurses' knowledge and compliance and their association regarding prevention of CLABSI in public and private sector hospitals of Peshawar. Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was carried out among 140 Nurses working in Intensive Care Units of (LRH & RMI) who had at least one year of experience. Enumerative or census sampling method was used to take the entire eligible ICU nurses as a sample. Data was collected through a validated and pre pilot tested questionnaire and checklist. Results: Around 30% of the nurses had poor knowledge, 43.6% had an average knowledge, 22.1% good knowledge and only 3.6% had an excellent knowledge regarding CLABSIs. The compliance level was found as 83.6%. Very weak positive association was found between knowledge and compliance level of nurses regarding CLABSIs on Pearson Correlation test (r). Conclusions: The results of this study concluded that nurses were not well equipped with the knowledge regarding CLABSIs, while there was a weak positive relationship between knowledge and compliance level among nurses. Therefore, the findings suggest that nurses need to be updated with standard guidelines and training to prevent CLABSIs.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammad Yaseen Nursing Department, Hayatabad College of Nursing & Allied Health Sciences Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan Muhammad Suliman Nursing Department, Upper Swat College of Nursing Swat, Pakistan Adnan . Nursing Department, Sarhad College of Nursing Sciences Lund-khwar, Mardan, Pakistan Mahnoor Yaseen Nursing Department, Hayatabad College of Nursing & Allied Health Sciences Hayatabad, Peshawar, Pakistan Sardar Ali Nursing Department, Institute of Nursing Sciences, Khyber Medical University Peshawar Pakistan Amir Sultan Nursing Department, Saidu Group of Teaching Hospital, Saidu Sharif, Swat, Pakistan
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