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WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated support for continued learning in frontline practitioners through online digital mediums that are convenient and fast to maintain physical distancing. Nurses are already neglected professionals for support in training for infection control, leadership, and comm...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8885589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.739761 |
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author | Jafree, Sara Rizvi Zakar, Rubeena Rafiq, Nasim Javed, Ambreen Durrani, Rana Rubab Burhan, Syeda Khadija Hasnain Nadir, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Fatima Shahid, Aimen Momina, Ain ul Wrona, Kamil J. Mahmood, Qaisar Khalid Fischer, Florian |
author_facet | Jafree, Sara Rizvi Zakar, Rubeena Rafiq, Nasim Javed, Ambreen Durrani, Rana Rubab Burhan, Syeda Khadija Hasnain Nadir, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Fatima Shahid, Aimen Momina, Ain ul Wrona, Kamil J. Mahmood, Qaisar Khalid Fischer, Florian |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated support for continued learning in frontline practitioners through online digital mediums that are convenient and fast to maintain physical distancing. Nurses are already neglected professionals for support in training for infection control, leadership, and communication in Pakistan and other developing countries. For that reason, we aimed to deliver a WhatsApp-based intervention for continued learning in nurses who are currently working in both private and public sector. A 12-week intervention was delivered to 208 nurses (102 in the control group and 106 in the intervention group) who had been employed in the clinical setting during data collection. The analysis reveals that nurses in the intervention group show significantly better results for learning in “infection prevention and control” and “leadership and communication.” Results of a content analysis based on participant's feedback also confirm that the WhatsApp-based intervention is a valuable tool for education. This study highlights the effectiveness of online-based digital interventions as a convenient training tool for awareness and management of infectious diseases, leadership, and communication during COVID-19 and beyond. Furthermore, this study emphasizes that group interventions with other healthcare practitioners and the role of on-going longer WhatsApp-based interventions can become integral tools to support continued learning and patient safety practices. |
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spelling | pubmed-88855892022-03-02 WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial Jafree, Sara Rizvi Zakar, Rubeena Rafiq, Nasim Javed, Ambreen Durrani, Rana Rubab Burhan, Syeda Khadija Hasnain Nadir, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Fatima Shahid, Aimen Momina, Ain ul Wrona, Kamil J. Mahmood, Qaisar Khalid Fischer, Florian Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated support for continued learning in frontline practitioners through online digital mediums that are convenient and fast to maintain physical distancing. Nurses are already neglected professionals for support in training for infection control, leadership, and communication in Pakistan and other developing countries. For that reason, we aimed to deliver a WhatsApp-based intervention for continued learning in nurses who are currently working in both private and public sector. A 12-week intervention was delivered to 208 nurses (102 in the control group and 106 in the intervention group) who had been employed in the clinical setting during data collection. The analysis reveals that nurses in the intervention group show significantly better results for learning in “infection prevention and control” and “leadership and communication.” Results of a content analysis based on participant's feedback also confirm that the WhatsApp-based intervention is a valuable tool for education. This study highlights the effectiveness of online-based digital interventions as a convenient training tool for awareness and management of infectious diseases, leadership, and communication during COVID-19 and beyond. Furthermore, this study emphasizes that group interventions with other healthcare practitioners and the role of on-going longer WhatsApp-based interventions can become integral tools to support continued learning and patient safety practices. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8885589/ /pubmed/35242728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.739761 Text en Copyright © 2022 Jafree, Zakar, Rafiq, Javed, Durrani, Burhan, Hasnain Nadir, Ali, Shahid, Momina, Wrona, Mahmood and Fischer. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Jafree, Sara Rizvi Zakar, Rubeena Rafiq, Nasim Javed, Ambreen Durrani, Rana Rubab Burhan, Syeda Khadija Hasnain Nadir, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Fatima Shahid, Aimen Momina, Ain ul Wrona, Kamil J. Mahmood, Qaisar Khalid Fischer, Florian WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title | WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title_full | WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title_fullStr | WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title_full_unstemmed | WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title_short | WhatsApp-Delivered Intervention for Continued Learning for Nurses in Pakistan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Randomized-Controlled Trial |
title_sort | whatsapp-delivered intervention for continued learning for nurses in pakistan during the covid-19 pandemic: results of a randomized-controlled trial |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8885589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242728 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.739761 |
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