Nurse’s Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Face Mask and its Associated Factors During COVID-19 Pandemic in Selected Governmental Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
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2021-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Wearing face masks is considered as an effective technique of preventing respiratory tract infections including COVID-19 and Proper utilization of face masks by healthcare givers can decrease air born viral respiratory infection contamination by 80%. However, a little is known about
knowledge attitude and practices of nurses concerning face mask use, and it is very important to identify the gaps and mediate immediately to control the spread of infection.
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine nurse‟s knowledge, attitude, practice, and its associated factors towards face mask during COVID-19 pandemic in Addis Ababa governmental hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
Method: - Across-sectional, quantitative study was conducted from February to May 2021.The study covered 422 nurses working in selected governmental hospitals in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. Data were collected using a pre-tested self-administered questionnaire adopted from different studies after getting agreement from the study participants. After the data were collected, entered to Epidata version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 25.Adescriptive statistics ware used. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model was used to measure the association between the predictor and outcome variables. Statistical significance was declared at p-value<0.05. Direction and strength of association were expressed using OR and 95%CI.
Results; The overall knowledge, attitude, and practice of nurses towards face mask during COVID19were 104(25.7%), 358(91.6%), and 86(21.3%) respectively. According to multivariable regression, male nurses had 4 times, and nurses who had training related to face masking are 9 times good knowledge than counterparts (AOR = 3.0, 95% CI=1.8-5.1), (AOR =9.4 95% CI= 5.4-16.2)respectively. The odds of being work experience greater than 10 years, and having training related to face mask had 4 times positive attitude towards face than counterparts (AOR=4.4, 95% CI= (1.613),(AOR=4.5,95%
CI=1.6-12.3)respectively.female nurses,and work experiencegreaterthan10
yearshad 2 times good practice on face mask than counterparts (AOR= 2.1, 95% CI= (12-.3.4),(AOR=2.1, 95% CI=1.1-4.2) respectively.
Conclusion and recommendation; The level of Knowledge and practice in nurses worked in AddisAbaba governmental hospitals is extremely poor, and have comparatively positive attitude. sex,work experience and training had significantly associated with nurse‟s knowledge attitude and practice of face mask. Continues and comprehensive training, focus on less than 10 years‟ work experience
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Knowledge, Attitude, practice, Nurse, facemask, and COVID-19 pandemic.