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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Infection Control among Community-visiting Nurses

방문간호사의 감염관리에 대한 지식, 태도 및 수행

  • Park, Han Nah (College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Expert Group on Health Promotion for the Seoul Metropolitan Government) ;
  • Lee, Insook (College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Expert Group on Health Promotion for the Seoul Metropolitan Government) ;
  • Kim, Jieun (Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Expert Group on Health Promotion for the Seoul Metropolitan Government) ;
  • Gweon, Sohyeon (College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Expert Group on Health Promotion for the Seoul Metropolitan Government) ;
  • Choo, Jina (College of Nursing, Korea University, Transdisciplinary Major in Learning Health Systems, Department of Health Sciences, Korea University Graduate School, Expert Group on Health Promotion for the Seoul Metropolitan Government)
  • 박한나 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단) ;
  • 이인숙 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단) ;
  • 김지은 (중앙대학교 적십자간호대학 간호학과, 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단) ;
  • 권소현 (서울대학교 간호대학, 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단) ;
  • 추진아 (고려대학교 간호대학, 고려대학교 대학원 헬스케어사이언스학과 러닝헬스시스템융합전공, 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단)
  • Received : 2022.02.03
  • Accepted : 2022.03.25
  • Published : 2022.04.30
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Abstract

Purpose: Purpose: This study aimed to identify whether infection control practice would correlate significantly with the knowledge and attitude of infection control in the pre-, mid-, and postvisiting rounds among community-visiting nurses. Methods: A descriptive study was conducted based on the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) model by administrating questionnaires during September-October 2020. A total of 65 nurses working for 15 community health centers in Seoul, South Korea were included. The questionnaires were developed based on the epidemiologic triangle model and comprised of 28 items on practice, 18 items on knowledge, and 10 items on attitude. Results: The infection control practice showed a mean of 88.9 (range, 0-100). The infection control knowledge had 89.2% on the host domain, 80.0% on the environment domain, and 74.8% on the agent domain (range, 0-100). The infection control attitude showed a mean of 39.5 (range, 0-50). Higher scores on the infection control practice are significantly correlated with the higher scores on the infection control knowledge about the host domain (p= .004) at the pre-, mid-, and post-visiting rounds. Higher scores on the infection control practice are significantly correlated with the higher scores on the infection control attitude at the mid- (p= .018) and postvisiting rounds (p= .028). Conclusions: The infection control practice by community-visiting nurses may be enhanced with increased knowledge and attitude levels of infection control at the mid- and post-visiting rounds. The enhancement should be included in the on-the-job education for community-visiting nurses.

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본 연구는 서울시 통합건강증진사업지원단 민간위탁과제(2020 - 2021년) 및 한국연구재단 중견연구과제(No. NRF-2019R1A2C1004116)지원을 받아 수행된 연구임.

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