Nosocomial infection educational module for nurses

• Register: ISRCTN
• Last refreshed on: 7 November 2022
• Main ID: ISRCTN19992640
• Date of registration: 23/06/2017
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
• Public title: Nosocomial infection educational module for nurses
• Scientific title: Effectiveness of nosocomial infection control education module for nurses in public hospital in Azal region, Yemen
• Date of first enrolment: 08/06/2015
• Target sample size: 540
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN19992640
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Single-blinded randomised community trial (Prevention)
• Phase: Not Applicable

Countries of recruitment

Yemen

Contacts

• Name: Gamil Alrubaiee

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria:
1. Yemeni Fully employed nurses working in the selected hospitals
2. Both male and female
3. Have a three year diploma in nursing after secondary school

Exclusion criteria: Foreign nurses

Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Nurses' knowledge and practices regarding nosocomial infection control measures before and immediately post-intervention and three months after.
Infections and Infestations
Nosocomial infection control

Intervention(s)

This study is conducted in three phases:

Phase one: Module & instrument development
Phase two: Module implementation
Phase three: Module evaluation

During the second phase of the study, the module implementation, participants are randomly assigned based on their hospital to one of three groups. Three arms are formed for the purpose of this study, two of them are intervention groups, while the third one is a wait list group (control group). Eight hospitals are allocated by the ratio 2:2, four hospitals are assigned to the wait list group, and the other four hospitals are allocated evenly to each of the two intervention groups. Assignment to the groups is done by simple randomisation using a table of random numbers generated by Computer. This study is single-blind trail, therefore the researcher is aware about the allocation, while the hospitals are not aware about it until the intervention started, after which blinding is not possible because the intervention hospitals receive the training course.

Three groups are formed for the purpose of this study, two of them are experimental groups, while the third one is a waitlist group, meaning no intervention are received by the participants in this group during the period of data collection but for ethical considerations the wait list group given the same training and learning materials after phase three. All participants fill out a questionnaire prior to the interventions.

Group 1 (Intervention group 1): Participants receive an educational module supported by audio-video CD and training course for eight weeks that aims to improve nurses' knowledge and practices regarding nosocomial infection control measures.

Primary Outcome(s)

1. Nurse’s knowledge is measured using the NIs-Questionnaire at baseline, immediately post-intervention, and three month post-intervention
2. Nurses practices is measured using the NIs-Questionnaire at baseline, immediately post-intervention, and three month post-intervention

Secondary Outcome(s)

There are no secondary outcome measures.

Secondary ID(s)

UPM/TNCPI/RMC/1.4.18.1 (JKEUPM)/F2

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Yemen

Ethics review

Status:
Approval date:
Contact:

Ethics Committee for Research involving Human Subjects of University Putra Malaysia (JKEUPM), 06/02/2015, ref: UPM/TNCPI/RMC/1.4.18.1 (JKEUPM)

Results

• Date Completed: 30/10/2016