Effectiveness of education strategies in reducing needle stick injuries among nurses of private hospitals in Jordan
Introduction: Needle stick injuries are “punctures of the skin with a needle”. Needle stick injuries cause severe consequences such as the transmission of blood borne diseases. Nurses are the most occupational group under the risk of acquiring a needle stick injury. In Jordan, a study revealed th...
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2017
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| 总结: | Introduction: Needle stick injuries are “punctures of the skin with a needle”. Needle
stick injuries cause severe consequences such as the transmission of blood borne
diseases. Nurses are the most occupational group under the risk of acquiring a needle
stick injury. In Jordan, a study revealed that 92% private hospital nurses have
acquired at least one needle stick injury within the past 12 months (Hassan and
Wahsheh, 2009). Another study in Jordan showed that 90% (46 out of 51) of the
nurses working in private hospitals acquired at least one needle stick injury
(Abozead et al., 2015).
Objective: To develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of educational
module and strategies to reduce needle stick injuries among nurses of private
hospitals in Jordan.
Methodology: This study utilized a Randomized Control Trial design with four
arms; three intervention groups and one control. All private hospitals were screened
for inclusion eligibility, then simple random sampling was performed to select four
hospitals, and then a total of 102 nurses were sampled inside each hospital using
stratified random sampling with total of 408. Education was provided utilizing three
strategies: Social Media, Audio-visual, and combined. Data were collected on three
waves; baseline, three months, and six months after completing the interventions.
Results: Significant difference in injury occurrences after three months found only
between control group and combined intervention group (P= 0.002). After 6 months
significant differences were found between control and social media groups (P=
0.032), control and audio-visual groups (P= 0.007), and control and combined
groups (P<0.001). For the knowledge, attitudes, and practices, after 3 months the
number of variables with significant differences between intervention and control
groups was six (P<0.05), and increased to nine after 6 months (P<0.05). For the
beliefs, at baseline only 3 variables out of 26 showed significant differences between
study groups (NSI not preventable, P=0.04; Injection likelihood, P= .002; Any
training/education, P= .04), but after 3 months the number of variables increased to
five, and increased to eleven after 6 months (P<0.05). The results for risk factors of
needle stick injuries were fatigue (P<0.001), lack of assistance (P= 0.001),
emotional distress (P= .021), being rushed (P= .002), and Lack of skills (P= .001).
The hierarchical regression for the prediction of changes in injury occurrence
produced a model with four predictors after three months (P< .001), and six
predictors after six months (P< .001).
Conclusion: the newly developed education module and strategies are successful in
significantly decreasing the occurrence of needle stick injuries in all three
intervention groups. Changing nurses’ beliefs towards needle stick injuries and
increasing their knowledge resulted in changing behaviors, which lead to decrease
the occurrence of needle stick. Five risk factors were found to be significantly
associated with needle stick injuries; fatigue, lack of assistance, emotional distress,
being rushed, and Lack of skills. The reduction in injuries could be predicted by the
intervention strategies, changes in knowledge, practices, attitudes, and beliefs. |
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