Cargando…

Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2021 to June 2022, 816 nursing students participated in the study. A socio-demographic questionnaire and Com...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Topçu, Sevcan, Emlek Sert, Zuhal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10024895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36945360
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15056
_version_ 1784909209280708608
author Topçu, Sevcan
Emlek Sert, Zuhal
author_facet Topçu, Sevcan
Emlek Sert, Zuhal
author_sort Topçu, Sevcan
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2021 to June 2022, 816 nursing students participated in the study. A socio-demographic questionnaire and Compliance with Standard Precautions Scale were used to collect data. Means and percentages were used to report socio-demographic characteristics multiple regression analysis used to identify the factors influencing compliance with standard precautions. RESULTS: The mean age of nursing students was 21.30 ± 1.31 years. The majority of nursing students were female, with 703 (86.2%) being female and 113 (13.8%) being male. Compliance among nursing students was 76.8% overall. Nursing students reported the highest compliance (97.7%) with putting used sharp articles into sharp boxes, with 97.1% compliance for covering mouth and nose when wearing a mask. Participants reported the lowest (38.6%) when it came to not recapping used needles after giving an injection. Regression analysis revealed that gender, year of study, and having needlestick injury or contact with blood/body fluids experience all influenced nursing students’ compliance with standard precautions. CONCLUSIONS: During the pandemic, nursing students compliance to standard precautions was optimal, according to this study. More research should be done to assess nursing students’ compliance with standard precautions and the effect of infection control strategies used to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-10024895
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher PeerJ Inc.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-100248952023-03-20 Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic Topçu, Sevcan Emlek Sert, Zuhal PeerJ Infectious Diseases OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from December 2021 to June 2022, 816 nursing students participated in the study. A socio-demographic questionnaire and Compliance with Standard Precautions Scale were used to collect data. Means and percentages were used to report socio-demographic characteristics multiple regression analysis used to identify the factors influencing compliance with standard precautions. RESULTS: The mean age of nursing students was 21.30 ± 1.31 years. The majority of nursing students were female, with 703 (86.2%) being female and 113 (13.8%) being male. Compliance among nursing students was 76.8% overall. Nursing students reported the highest compliance (97.7%) with putting used sharp articles into sharp boxes, with 97.1% compliance for covering mouth and nose when wearing a mask. Participants reported the lowest (38.6%) when it came to not recapping used needles after giving an injection. Regression analysis revealed that gender, year of study, and having needlestick injury or contact with blood/body fluids experience all influenced nursing students’ compliance with standard precautions. CONCLUSIONS: During the pandemic, nursing students compliance to standard precautions was optimal, according to this study. More research should be done to assess nursing students’ compliance with standard precautions and the effect of infection control strategies used to prevent COVID-19 transmission. PeerJ Inc. 2023-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10024895/ /pubmed/36945360 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15056 Text en ©2023 Topçu and Emlek Sert https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
spellingShingle Infectious Diseases
Topçu, Sevcan
Emlek Sert, Zuhal
Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort turkish nursing students’ compliance to standard precautions during the covid-19 pandemic
topic Infectious Diseases
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10024895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36945360
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15056
work_keys_str_mv AT topcusevcan turkishnursingstudentscompliancetostandardprecautionsduringthecovid19pandemic
AT emleksertzuhal turkishnursingstudentscompliancetostandardprecautionsduringthecovid19pandemic