NCT05130749

Infection Prevention and Control Practices Regarding COVID-19

Infection Prevention and Control Practices Among Primary Healthcare Nurses Regarding COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 198 (actual)
• Sponsor: King Saud University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Background: Healthcare providers, particularly nurses, are at risk of infection as part of the COVID-19 epidemic chain since they assist in the disease's containment. By recognising the risk factors for infection and implementing suitable measures to reduce these risks, all reasonable efforts should be taken to control the spread of infection to them. The major aim of the present study was to determine the level of infection prevention and control practises used by primary healthcare nurses in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conditions

• COVID-19 Pandemic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	The questionnaire's first section asked for demographic information such as gender, age, the name of the primary healthcare centre, and level of education. The second section comprised sources of knowledge on COVID-19; respondents replied on a scale of 1 least used (1), occasionally (2), more frequently (3), and most used (4). The third section had six items pertaining to nurses' infection prevention and control methods with reference to COVID-19, and respondents replied on a scale of yes (2), occasionally (1), and no (0). Permission to use the questionnaire has been requested from the author and is awaited.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-12
• Primary completion: 2021-09-15
• Completion: 2021-09-15
• First posted: 2021-11-23
• Last updated: 2021-11-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia