Infection Prevention and Control Practices Regarding COVID-19

Completed

• Conditions: COVID-19 Pandemic
• Interventions: Other: Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT05130749
• Lead Sponsor: King Saud University

Brief Summary

Background: Healthcare providers, particularly nurses, are at risk of infection as part of the COVID-19 epidemic chain since they assist in the disease's containment. By recognising the risk factors for infection and implementing suitable measures to reduce these risks, all reasonable efforts should be taken to control the spread of infection to them. The major aim of the present study was to determine the level of infection prevention and control practises used by primary healthcare nurses in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-08-12
• Primary Completion: 2021-09-15
• Study Completion: 2021-09-15
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Study First Submitted: 2021-11-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-11-19
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-11-19
• Study First Posted: 2021-11-23
• Last Update Posted: 2021-11-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 198

Inclusion Criteria

• Male and female healthcare practitioners with at least one year of experience and who worked in all areas of primary healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 epidemic.

Exclusion Criteria

• Healthcare providers that are unwilling to participate in the present study have been eliminated

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Primary Healthcare Nurses	Questionnaire	Nurses allocated in primary Healthcare settings
Non Nurses Primary Healthcare	Questionnaire	Other Healthcare providers allocated in primary health care settings

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Distribution of study participants by gender, age group, marital status, and income level in a self-reported questionnaire.	Once within 6 weeks	Demographic data included age, gender, experience, educational level, marital status, income and job will be assessed using numerical code for each demographic variable.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Detection of source of knowledge regarding COVID-19 prevention methods	Once within 6 weeks	Using self-reporting questionnaire, will assess Social Media, Radio \& television, Seminars \& workshops, Posters \& Pamphlets, Newspapers \&Magazines and Seniors \& Other Colleagues from (Least used= 1 to Most used= 4).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

King Saud University; 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia