Abstract
Objective To explore the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) knowledge and attitude, and its influences on protective behavior among clinical nurses so as to provide a reference for developing effective intervention strategy. Methods Cross-sectional investigation was used to hospital-wide nurses selected by convenience sampling in February 2020 through sending a link of Wenjuanxing to work WeChat group of Nursing Department of Beijing Hospital and to circle of friends. Clinical nurses met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were invited to fill in the questionnaire. The self-designed related knowledge, attitude and behavior questionnaire was used to the investigation. Results Among 750 clinical nurses, the self-assessment of related knowledge was≥7, with 70.04% for the average percentage. There were 91.6% of nurses with the confidence to fight with epidemic situation. After broke out, 94.1% of nurses strictly carried out the hand hygiene. Behavior changes in wearing gloves when potentially contacting bloods, body fluids, secretions and , wearing goggles and protective clothing when bloods, body fluids, secretions and excreta potentially splashing accounted for 89.2%, 81.5% and 71.6% respectively. Pearson correlation analysis showed that related knowledge of 750 nurses had no correlations with three dimensions worrying about infecting COVID-19 , effectiveness of standard precaution and influencing factors of taking standard precaution of attitude with no statistical differences (r=-0.053, 0.036,0.014;P>0.05).Variance analysis results showed that related knowledge had an influence on views on COVID-19 , and had no influence on hand hygiene with no statistical difference (P>0.05), and had influences on wearing gloves when potentially contacting bloods, body fluids, secretions and , wearing goggles and protective clothing when bloods, body fluids, secretions and excreta potentially splashing with statistical differences (P 0.05). Conclusions COVID-19 related knowledge of clinical nurses need to be improved and protective behavior should be changed further. Key words: Nurses; COVID-19; Knowledge; Attitude; Behavior
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