Effectiveness of an Interventional Program on Nursing Staff’ Knowledge Concerning Prevention of Pressure Ulcer at the Intensive Care Unit in Al-Diwaniyah Teaching Hospital

Abstract

Objective (s): This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an interventional program on nursing staff’
knowledge concerning prevention of pressure ulcer at the intensive care unit in Al-Diwaniyah Teaching
Hospital, and to find out the relationships between nurse’s knowledge and their socio-demographic
characteristics (age, gender, level of education, years of experience in intensive care unit, and participation
in training session).
Methodology: A pre-experimental design (one group of sample) used to guide this study, it was conducted
by use of a pre-posttest approach during the period October 5th 2020, to March 20th 2021. A non-probability
(purposive) sampling has been performed during a selection of (27) nurses who works at the intensive care
unit in Al-Diwaniyah Teaching Hospital were exposed to the interventional program. In order to reach
the aims of the study, the researcher constructed program and questionnaire format to assess the nurses`
knowledge, the questionnaire format was consisted of (4) domains; composed as a total of (24) questions
regarding pressure ulcer prevention. The validity of the program and instrument was determined by
presenting it to (15) specialist experts and reliability of the instruments was determined through (test-retest)
approach for knowledge test. The data analyzed through the use of a descriptive and inferential statistical in
order to discover the differences between the pre and post implementation.
Result: The findings of the current study revealed that there are highly statistically significant differences in
posttest in the study sample in all knowledge domains at P equal 0.001. The findings also show that there is
a statistical association between nurses` knowledge and their educational level and participation in training
sessions regarding pressure ulcer prevention.
Conclusion: The study concluded that the effectiveness of an interventional program on nurses’ knowledge
regarding pressure ulcer prevention is positive at a high rate.