Paul, Christie Lily Aida Pius
(2022)
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward coronavirus disease 2019 among intensive care unit nurses in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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Pusat Pengajian Sains Kesihatan, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
(Submitted)
Abstract
COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus
at Wuhan, China on 2019. Hence, COVID-19 spreads across the world, the intensive
care units (ICU) community must prepare for the challenges associated with this
pandemic. A cross-sectional study has been conducted to assess the level of knowledge,
attitudes and practices towards COVID-19 among ICU nurses in Hospital USM. This
study also examined the correlation between level of knowledge, attitudes and practices
toward COVID-19 among ICU nurses in Hospital USM. In addition, the study also
examined the association between the socio-demographic data of respondents (age,
gender, ethnicity, level of education and years in nursing practices) and the level of
knowledge, attitudes and practices toward COVID-19. The Pearson Correlation
Coefficient test was used to determine the correlation between the level of knowledge,
attitudes and practices toward COVID-19 and to determine the association between the
socio-demographic data of respondents (age, gender, ethnicity, level of education and
years in nursing practices) and the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices toward
COVID-19. A total 159 ICU nurse from ICU wards were recruited through purposive
sampling. Data were collected from September 2021 to June 2022 using google form
and analysed using SPSS version 26.0 for a window. Most of the respondents are female
(88.7%). The results revealed that overall ICU nurses had a moderate level of
knowledge towards COVID-19 , poor level of attitudes towards COVID-19 and good
level of practices towards COVID-19. In addition, the findings were there was no
significant association between level of knowledge and attitudes toward COVID-19 (p >0.05). Next, , the findings were there was no significant association between level of
knowledge and practices toward COVID-19 (p >0.05). Meanwhile, there are
significant association between level of attitude and level of practices (p= 0.001). The
findings about the association between socio-demographic data of respondent (age,
gender, ethnicity, level of education and years of nursing experiences) and the level of
knowledge, attitudes and practices, there is significant only between age and knowledge
as the p-value is 0.015. In conclusion, the level of knowledge and level of attitudes
needs to increased and improved among ICU nurses so they will be able to delivery an
excellent nursing care for COVID-19 patients.
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