A program to improve the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of needle stick and sharps injuries through bundled interventions among nurses: An KAP Mode-Based Approach to Intervention

• Published in: Psychology, health & medicine health & medicine, 2022-06, Vol.27 (5), p.999-1010
• Main Authors: Yang, Hong, Zhang, Hong, Lu, Yuhan, Gu, Youhui, Zhou, Jingjuan, Bai, Yueling
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Attitudes; educational intervention; Intervention; needle stick injuries; Nurses; nursing management; occupational infection; prevention; safe instrument
• ISSN: 1354-8506; 1465-3966
• DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2020.1830132

Nurses face a greater risk of needle stick and sharp injuries (NSIs) because they do most of the injections and procedures with sharp instruments. The current study tested a program to improve nurses' knowledge, attitudes and practices on NSIs, three phases were included: Developing the Hospital Practice Standard, implementing a series of measures and implementing of quality supervision phases. It consisted of a bundle of interventions based on Knowledge-Attitudes-Belief-Practice (KAP-KABP) Model with a pretest-posttest design. We obtained a total of 656 (88.53%) completed pre-intervention questionnaires and 674 (92.97%) post-intervention ones. The number of trained participants on NSIs increased from 615 (93.7%) to 666 (98.8%), and reported of NSIs within 3 months decreased from 42 to 15 (2.2%) after the intervention. The total score of Knowledge of NSIs improved from 19.18 (SD = 1.31) to 19.42 (SD = 0.93) after training (Z = −4.025, P