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Knowledge, attitudes and practices concerning catheter-associated urinary tract infection amongst healthcare workers: a mixed methods systematic review.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Huang, Aoli Hong, Weixi Zhao, Baojie Lin, Jing Xi, Rui Wang, Yu |
| Abstract | AimTo evaluate healthcare workers' knowledge, attitudes and practices level of prevention and management of catheter‐associated urinary tract infection.DesignA mixed‐methods systematic review.MethodsSearches were conducted in CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Medline, PubMed and Web of Science databases. Limited literatures published in English before 20 June 2021. Data were analysed and synthesized using thematic analysis by two authors.ResultsThirty‐four articles were included. Healthcare workers' unbalanced varied knowledge level, positive attitudes, undesirable practices of catheter‐associated urinary tract infection's prevention and control were identified. Barriers of healthcare workers' knowledge, attitudes and practices level of infection prevention included heavy workload, understaffing, physician variability in indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) practice by diagnosis, nursing variability in IUC placement technique, poor relationship and nurse's poor documentation. Leadership, better education, teamwork, technique training and information technology support, advocacy for nurse‐driven protocol and IUC removal reminder were considered as facilitators. |
| Page Count | 24 |
| Journal | Nursing Open |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC9912418 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| PubMed reference number | 36519497 |
| e-ISSN | 20541058 |
| DOI | 10.1002/nop2.1384 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Inc. |
| Publisher Date | 2022-12-15 |
| Publisher Place | Hoboken |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. © 2022 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
| Subject Keyword | catheter‐associated urinary tract infection healthcare worker knowledge, attitude and practice mixed methods nurse systematic review |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Nursing |