Investigation on awareness and training needs of incontinence-associated dermatitis among clinical nurses / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To investigate the awareness and training needs of incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) among clinical nurses, so as to provide insights into the standardization of clinical nursing of IAD. @*Methods@#Clinical nurses with more than one year of service in Lanxi People's Hospital were selected as study subjects in October 2021. The demographics, awareness of IAD knowledge and training needs were collected using a self-designed questionnaire. The age-, duration of service-, academic degree-, professional title- and department-specific awareness of IAD knowledge was analyzed.@*Results@#A total of 420 questionnaires were allocated, and 409 valid questionnaires were recovered, with an effective recovery rate of 97.38%. All respondents were females, with a mean age of (37.68±4.82) years, and a mean service duration of (18.72±3.46) years. There were 199 nurses with a primary title (48.66%), 169 nurses with a intermediate title (41.32%), and 41 nurses with a senior title (10.02%). There were 217 nurses with a bachelor degree or above (53.06%), and 208 nurses from internal medicine and surgery departments (50.86%). The overall awareness of IAD knowledge was 74.57% among the respondents, and the awareness rates of IAD definition, the difference between IAD and pressure ulcers and influencing factors of IAD were 86.06%, 83.37% and 82.15%, respectively. The nurses at ages of 41 to 53 years (89.01%), having a senior title (94.24%), with a nursing duration of 21 years and longer (92.97%) and participating in IAD training during the recent one year (77.41%) had a high awareness rate of IAD-related knowledge. There was a high proportion of needs for training on basic IAD-related knowledge (396 nurses, 96.82%).@*Conclusions@#The awareness of IAD knowledge requires to be improved among clinical nurses. The training on IAD knowledge is recommended to be improved.