Implementation of an educational module on nosocomial infection control measures: a randomised hospital-based trial

Previous cross-sectional studies have reported limited knowledge and practices among nurses regarding controlling nosocomial infections (NIs). Even though health institutions offer many irregular in-service training courses to solve such issues, a three year-nursing educational programme at institut...

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Published in:BMC nursing 2021-02, Vol.20 (1), p.33-10, Article 33
Main Authors: Alrubaiee, Gamil Ghaleb, Baharom, Anisah, Faisal, Ibrahim, Shahar, Hayati Kadir, Daud, Shaffe Mohd, Basaleem, Huda Omer
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Language:English
Subjects:
Control
Cross infection
Cross-sectional studies
Disease control
Educational module
Health care
Hospitals
Infection control
Intervention
Knowledge
Methods
Nosocomial infections
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Patients
Sample size
Study and teaching
Yemen
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Summary:Previous cross-sectional studies have reported limited knowledge and practices among nurses regarding controlling nosocomial infections (NIs). Even though health institutions offer many irregular in-service training courses to solve such issues, a three year-nursing educational programme at institutions is not adequate to enable nurses to handle NIs. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the implementation of an educational module on NIs control measures among Yemeni nurses. A single-blinded randomised hospital-based trial was undertaken involving 540 nurses assigned to two intervention groups and a waitlist group. Intervention group-1 received a face-to-face training course comprising 20 h spread over six weeks and a hard copy of the module, while intervention group-2 only received the hard copy of the module "without training". In contrast, the waitlist group did not receive anything during the period of collecting data. A self-administered NI control measures-evaluation questionnaire was utilised in collecting the data from the participants; before the intervention, at six weeks and 3 months after the end of the intervention. The period of data collection was between 1 May and 30 October 2016. The results from collecting and analysing the data showed a statistically significant difference in the mean knowledge scores between the intervention groups that were detectable immediately post-intervention with a mean difference (MD) of 4.31 (P 
ISSN:1472-6955
1472-6955
DOI:10.1186/s12912-021-00551-0