Knowledge and Practice of Nurses towards the Prevention of Catheter- Associated Urinary Tract Infection Working in Intensive Care unit of Federally Administer Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
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2021-06
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Addis Abeba University
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Background:Urinary catheterization is one of the most common procedures performed in
hospitals especially in intensive care units and the single highest risk factor for acquired
UTIs.More than 75% of all acquired UTI are due to catheter use.Nurses are the primary
healthcare providers who are responsible for inserting and maintaining urinary catheters. But
most of the nurses had an inadequate level of knowledge and practice regarding the prevention of
catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Objective:This study aimedto assess the knowledge and practice of nurses towards the
prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)workingin the Intensive Care
Unitoffederally administeredhospitals inAddisAbaba Ethiopia,2021 G.C.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study wasconducted.A total of 184 nurses were
participated by census sampling method. Data was collected by self-administered
questionary.Data wereentered by using epi data 4.6.0 and was analyzed by SPSS version
26.0.Pearson chi-square and Fischer exact testswere performed to see the association between
independent and dependent variables.A P< 0.05 was consideredstatistically significant.
Results; the study findings showed that more than half of nurses 116 (63.04%) had a poor level
of knowledge while only 68 (36.96%)had a good level of knowledge and 96 (52.17%)of nurses
had a good level of practice while88 (47.83%) had a poor level of practice. There was a
statistical association between nurse’s knowledge and experiences a (p-value=0.031).While there
was no statistical association between nurse’s knowledge and practicelevel and nurse’s
knowledge and practice with age, sex, level of education, marital status, training, and
guidelines/protocols a (p-value>0.05).
Conclusion and Recommendation: results showed that nurses had a poor level of knowledge
and practice for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.Further studies
withlarge sample sizesneed to investigate factors affecting nurse’s knowledge and practice
towards the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), Knowledge, practice, nurse