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Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study
BACKGROUND: The extensive spread of Covid-19 pandemic globally became the main cause of concern for everyone, including security officers working in a health care setting. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of instructional module for Covid-19 prevention among hospital security officers. METHODS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565112/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2609_20 |
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author | Sharma, Rakesh Rohilla, Kusum K. Chadha, Lisa Malhotra, Priyanka Sharmila, S Jelly, Prasuna |
author_facet | Sharma, Rakesh Rohilla, Kusum K. Chadha, Lisa Malhotra, Priyanka Sharmila, S Jelly, Prasuna |
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description | BACKGROUND: The extensive spread of Covid-19 pandemic globally became the main cause of concern for everyone, including security officers working in a health care setting. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of instructional module for Covid-19 prevention among hospital security officers. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A preexperimental study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital from North India. A total of 344 security officers were selected by the convenient sampling technique. A self-structured knowledge and practice questionnaires and instructional module were developed based on the guidelines released by World Health Organization, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Knowledge and practice were pretested, followed by the implementation of a video cum discussion instructional module for Covid-19 prevention. A posttest of knowledge and practice assessment was done after 7 days by using the same questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compute and analyse the data. RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 29.5 ± 2.25; mos participants (75%) were male security officers. Knowledge and practice scores improved after the implementation of instructional module as mean scores of pretest to mean posttest scores had shown a significant difference (P = 0.00). In practice, instructional module was significantly effective, except for touching hair again and again, as it could be a source of covid-19 infection. CONCLUSION: This study finding highlights the significance of training security officers about the prevention of Covid-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-85651122021-11-09 Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study Sharma, Rakesh Rohilla, Kusum K. Chadha, Lisa Malhotra, Priyanka Sharmila, S Jelly, Prasuna J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: The extensive spread of Covid-19 pandemic globally became the main cause of concern for everyone, including security officers working in a health care setting. OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of instructional module for Covid-19 prevention among hospital security officers. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A preexperimental study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital from North India. A total of 344 security officers were selected by the convenient sampling technique. A self-structured knowledge and practice questionnaires and instructional module were developed based on the guidelines released by World Health Organization, Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Knowledge and practice were pretested, followed by the implementation of a video cum discussion instructional module for Covid-19 prevention. A posttest of knowledge and practice assessment was done after 7 days by using the same questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compute and analyse the data. RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 29.5 ± 2.25; mos participants (75%) were male security officers. Knowledge and practice scores improved after the implementation of instructional module as mean scores of pretest to mean posttest scores had shown a significant difference (P = 0.00). In practice, instructional module was significantly effective, except for touching hair again and again, as it could be a source of covid-19 infection. CONCLUSION: This study finding highlights the significance of training security officers about the prevention of Covid-19. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-09 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8565112/ /pubmed/34760740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2609_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sharma, Rakesh Rohilla, Kusum K. Chadha, Lisa Malhotra, Priyanka Sharmila, S Jelly, Prasuna Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title | Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title_full | Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title_fullStr | Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title_full_unstemmed | Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title_short | Strategy to prevent infection from Covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: A preexperimental study |
title_sort | strategy to prevent infection from covid-19 among security officers of tertiary care centre: a preexperimental study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8565112/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34760740 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_2609_20 |
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