scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitude, And Practice Regarding Nursing Interruptions Among Nurses in Tertiary Care Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Simon Javed ◽  
Muhammad Hussain ◽  
Kausar Parveen ◽  
Muhammad Afzal
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Purpose: Nursing is a profession who belong to care of community, a universal perception. Nurses job criteria belongs to many distractions and obstacles in performing their job. Interruption is considered to be part of workplace. The nursing profession responsibility and reliability are of high concerns because it deals with the life of human beings. Interruption at workplace compromises the patient safety. The study sought to explore the knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding nursing interruption among nurses. Methodology: Descriptive cross-sectional study design used. Questionnaire a tool used to collect data from tertiary care hospital (n=115). The tool contains a dimension of knowledge attitude and practice scoring of questionnaires as knowledge 50 score, attitude 45 and practice 28, respectively number questions each domains knowledge 10, attitude 9 and practice 7. Results: The KAP regarding interruption among Pakistani nurses score range (26-123). The means of knowledge attitude and practices respectively 31.2957 ± 7.21229, 33.1478 ± 5.68507, 19.5826 ± 3.86841. the collective mean and standard deviation of knowledge attitude and practice 84.0261 ± 16.76577. correlation statistically significant in KAP (p<0.05). Coefficient of correlation knowledge enhance practices. The combined KAP of respondents was 69%.  Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: Knowledge attitude and practice prime parameters of confirming the quality of understanding and performance. Study concluded that nurses have moderate level of knowledge attitude and practice 69%. The knowledge and attitude positive coefficient correlation, enhance each other. Gender, increased academic qualification, attention of leader and experience correlation with KAP. Experience and age group 10-15 years possess a high degree of knowledge attitude and practice. There is a need for interruption management training moreover requiring leader attention. Basic understating about interruption on a clinical place not considerably efficient. The dependent variable causes a 20% variance in the criterion variable.  

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding tuberculosis among the patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Maharashtra, India: a cross sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Nilesh S. Sonawane ◽  
Chaitanya R. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Common Symptom ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Female Ratio ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Tuberculosis is major public health problem especially in the low and middle income countries like India. We conducted a study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice related to tuberculosis among the patients attending our tertiary care institute.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital on the patients attending OPD of tertiary care hospital in Maharashtra. The patients with debilitating illness or bed bound patients and those diagnosed and cured of tuberculosis or were on treatment of tuberculosis were excluded from the study. A pretested and designed questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice about the cause, clinical features and treatment of tuberculosis.Results: The mean age of the study subjects was 43.34±11.23 years with male: female ratio of 1.45. About 16.67% of the subjects stated that cause of TB is bacteria, 51.33% reported that cough was the most common symptom, 58.67% believed that it spreads from person to person and among the people who said it spreads 58.67% said that it can be preventable.Conclusions: About 1/5th of the study subjects expressed the cause of TB is bacteria or germs, and more than ½ believed that TB spreads from person to person. About 2/3rd of the patients felt that TB was a very serious disease; more than ½ of them expressed fear if they were diagnosed with TB but more than ½ of them also expressed rejection if they have a TB patient as a closed one.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of food hygiene among street food vendors near a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1206
Author(s):  
Saswati Mukherjee ◽  
Tushar Kanti Mondal ◽  
Abhishek De ◽  
Raghunath Misra ◽  
Amitabha Pal
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Hygiene Practice ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Food Hygiene ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Street Food ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Health care set ups in Indian cities are being catered by a number of street food vendors on whom the patients, visitors, doctors, medical students and staff depend. Thus, ensuring proper food hygiene among them is of uttermost importance. The purpose of the study was to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of food hygiene among them and various factors that influence it.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on 106 street food vendors surrounding a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata. A predesigned pretested schedule was used to collect information on socio-demographic profile, knowledge and attitude on food hygiene through interviews and practice was observed. Statistical analysis was done using Pearson’s Chi-squared test.Results: The mean age of food vendors was 37.74±10.70 years and majority were familiar with the terms “food hygiene” and “food borne illness”. The median score of attitude on food hygiene was 9.5 and significant (p<0.05) association was found with age, gender and education. Less than one third of street food vendors had acceptable practice and significant (p<0.05) association was found with education, marital status and type of food vendor.Conclusions: The street food vendors were aware of food hygiene and had favourable attitude towards it, but it wasn’t translated in their hygiene practice. This study can help to identify the factors that influence food hygiene practice and incorporate them in food hygiene training. 

Confidence toward vaccination as reported by parents of children admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study

Vacunas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.M. AlGoraini ◽  
N.N. AlDujayn ◽  
M.A. AlRasheed ◽  
Y.E. Bashawri ◽  
S.S. Alsubaie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional
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