Effect of educational Guidelines Intervention regarding COVID -19 on nurses knowledge and precautionary practices in gastrointestinal endoscopes | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 21, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2021, Page 318-331 PDF (430.32 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.198517 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Elhaga Ibrahim Eldesouky Mohamed1; Eman Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed2; Aml Ahmed Mohammed ELmetwaly3 | ||||
| 1Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Portsaid University | ||||
| 2Medical Surgical Nursing, Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Aswan University | ||||
| 3Medical Surgical Nursing, Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: COVID-19 pandemic affected the global population, and infection is a high risk among nurses in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit. Endoscopy is a diagnostic procedure that involves inserting a flexible fiber-optic tube into the esophagus, stomach, or upper small intestine, depending on the degree of suspected lesions. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of educational guidelines intervention regarding COVID -19 on nurses' knowledge and precautionary practices in gastrointestinal (GIT) endoscopes. Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit affiliated with General Portsaid Hospitals (Al-Mabarrah Hospital, Al-Amiri Hospital, Al-Zohour Hospital, Port Fouad Hospital, and Al-Tadamon Hospital). Sample: The study included a convenient sample of all endoscopy nursing personnel (30 nurses). Three tools for data collection: (1) Demographic structured interview sheet, (2) Nurses’ Covid-19 Knowledge Questionnaire, and (3) Nurses’ Covid- 19 Precautionary Practices Checklists. Results: More than one-third of the studied nurses received training courses regarding COVID-19 before. Almost three-quarters of the studied nurses reported that their main source of information about knowledge regarding COVID-19 was doctors. There was an improvement with a highly statistically significant difference between nurse's knowledge regarding COVID -19 pre/post one month of educational intervention (P<0.001), with improved their precautionary practices score after one month. A statistically significant positive relation was found between the total mean score of studied nurses' COVID-19 knowledge and precautionary practice one month after the educational intervention. Conclusion: The study concluded that educational guidelines intervention for nurses in the GIT endoscopy unit greatly helps in improving COVID-19 levels of knowledge and precautionary practices with significant differences immediately and two months following an educational guidelines intervention. Recommendation: Continues designing and implementation in-service training program for nurses in the GIT endoscopy unit to improve their knowledge and precautionary practices | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| COVID-19; Gastrointestinal endoscopes; Precautionary practices; and Nurses' knowledge | ||||
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