- Title
- An educational intervention on the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections in haemodialysis patients in Eswatini
- Creator
- Simelane, Delisile
- Subject
- Grahamstown (South Africa)
- Subject
- Catheterization -- Complications -- Eswatini
- Subject
- Infection Control
- Date Issued
- 2021-04
- Date
- 2021-04
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/51906
- Identifier
- vital:43383
- Description
- Nurses are health care professionals whose duty it is to protect patients from acquiring infections while hospitalised in a health care setup. By maintaining an infection-free environment, it is expected that the patient's recovery will be promoted, and high-quality nursing care will be delivered. This also applies to the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) in haemodialysis patients. As nurses spend most of their nursing time with patients, they should have a good level of understanding of infection prevention and control in health care setups. In Eswatini, central venous catheters (CVCs) are commonly used for vascular access in patients who require haemodialysis. From the latest data available in the country's three largest regional hospitals, the proportion of haemodialysis patients with CVCs hospitalised for CRBSIs was 27% (64/239) January to December 2020. Further, it is unclear whether professional nurses have knowledge on the prevention of CRBSIs. This study aimed to investigate the effect of an educational intervention, based on the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Guidelines, on professional nurses' knowledge regarding the prevention of CRBSIs in haemodialysis patients in hospitals in Eswatini (previously known as Swaziland). The study used a convenience sample including all professional nurses and nurse managers (N=99) employed at the renal and intensive care units (ICUs) at the five hospitals (Hospitals A-E) in Eswatini where haemolysis is conducted. The study is underpinned by Florence Nightingale's Theory and the Knowledge-to-Action Framework. The research study followed a positivistic, quantitative research paradigm, using a quasi-experimental, one-group, pre-post-test design with an interventional research approach, to be conducted in three phases. The first phase was the distribution of a pre-test questionnaire to all professional nurses and nurse managers working in renal units and those in ICUs that are also managing CVCs in order to assess their knowledge regarding the prevention of CRBSIs in haemodialysis patients. The second phase included the educational intervention, which was developed, reviewed and presented by the researcher to professional nurses. The third phase included the distribution of a post-test questionnaire to the professional nurses to assess the effect of the educational intervention on their knowledge.The pre-and post-test questionnaires were developed by the researcher, in line with the educational intervention (and informed based on the pre-test findings), reviewed by six experts and pilot tested to ascertain its validity and reliability. The researcher captured the data using Microsoft Excel and, with the assistance of a statistician, who performed statistical analyses using Cronbach's alpha, One-sample t-tests, Cohen's Kappa, Cohen's D, and Chi-square test. Ethical principles, according to the Belmont Report, including autonomy, beneficence and justice, and appropriate standards of rigour were maintained throughout the research study. In this study the overall knowledge was good with a mean score of 75.05 ±8.74 for the pre-test and 77.75±9.55 for the post-test. The knowledge scores for the factor infection prevention was higher (pre-test: 83.33±9.28 versus post-test: 85.14±8.28) compared to the factor catheter care (pre-test: 66.76±13.13 versus post-test: 70.38±14.27). The factor catheter care and age was significantly related in the pre-test with a p-value of .043 between groups. The factor infection prevention and how long practising in the unit were significantly related in the pre-test, with a p-value of .029 between groups. The factor infection prevention in the pre-test had a medium significant difference between >1 year and >5 years practicing in the unit (Scheffé p .048 and Cohen's d 0.77). The study is the first in the field of nursing in Eswatini. The educational intervention can be used by nurses in renal units and ICUs to close knowledge-practice gaps that can put patients at higher risk for CRBSIs, but requires further development and testing.
- Description
- Thesis (MN) -- Faculty of Health Sciences, 2021
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- Format
- 1 online resource (xvii, 136 pages)
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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