Knowledge and Perception Towards Covid 19 Transmission and Prevention Among Nurses in Specialist Hospital Gombe.
CHAPTER ONE
Objective of the study
The objectives of the study are;
- To find out the knowledge and perception of nurses in specialist hospital Gombe state toward covid19
- To find out the mode of prevention by nurses of specialist hospital Gombe state to avoid contraction of covid19
- To find out whether all nurses at specialist hospital Gombe state adhere to preventive measures to avoid contraction
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Introduction
Coronavirus disease 2019 (abbreviated “COVID-19”) is an emerging respiratory disease that is caused by a novel coronavirus and was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The disease is infectious, and some of its clinical presentation or symptoms include fever, dry cough, fatigue, myalgia, and dyspnea (The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team, 2020; Chen et al., 2020).
Globally, World Health Organization has reported an increase in incidence of COVID-19 with 5,817,385 cases and 362,705 deaths as of May 30, 2020 (WHO, 2020). At the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, 18.5% of the patients with COVID-19 developed to the severe stage, which is characterized by acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, difficult-to-tackle metabolic acidosis, and bleeding and coagulation dysfunction (The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team, 2020; Chen et al., 2020). Also, at this early stage of the Coronavirus disease outbreak in China, the overall case fatality rate was 2.3%, much lower than those of SARS (9.5%), MERS (34.4%), and H7N9 (39.0%) (The Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team, 2020; Chen et al., 2020; Munster et al., 2020). However, as of May 30, 2020, China recorded an estimated 84,565 cases and 4645 deaths (WHO, 2020).
The novel outbreak spread to different parts of the world leading to an increase in COVID-19 cases. For instance, Europe had 2,122,350 cases and 179,353 deaths, America had 2,677,500 cases and 154,608 deaths, South- East Asia had 249,525 cases and 7,157 deaths and Africa had 96,902 cases with about 2,482 deaths as of May 30, 2020 (WHO, 2020). In response to this serious situation, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a public health emergency of international concern on January 30 and called for collaborative efforts of all countries to prevent its rapid spread (WHO, 2020).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to knowledge and perception towards covid19 transmission and prevention among nurses in specialist hospital Gombe state
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
Population of the study
Population of a study is a group of persons or aggregate items, things the researcher is interested in getting information knowledge and perception towards covid19 transmission and prevention among nurses in specialist hospital Gombe states. 200elected staffs of specialist hospital Gombe State were selected randomly by the researcher as the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain knowledge and perception towards covid19 transmission and prevention among nurses in specialists hospital Gombe. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of knowledge and perception towards covid19 transmission and prevention among nurses in specialists hospital Gombe
Summary
This study was on knowledge and perception towards covid19 transmission and prevention among nurses in specialists hospital Gombe. Three objectives were raised which included: To find out the knowledge and perception of nurses in specialist hospital Gombe state toward covid19, to find out the mode of prevention by nurses of specialist hospital Gombe state to avoid contraction of covid19 and to find out whether all nurses at specialist hospital Gombe state adhere to preventive measures to avoid contraction. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staffs of specialist hospital Gombe state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made doctors, nurses, directors and lab scientist were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
We concluded that health care workers have some gaps in knowledge related to COVID-19, the majority have a negative perception of the government’s COVID-19 response, and nearly one- third of them were unwilling to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study also revealed that. In contrast, nurses/midwives, public health workers in Gombe, and those who had adequate knowledge of COVID-19 were found to have higher odds of having satisfactory perceptions towards government response to COVID-19 management. In addition, paramedics, public health workers, laboratory workers, Gombe state, and those having perceived the government’s response to COVID-19 as satisfactory compared to their counterparts were found to have incremental willingness to work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our study suggests that prompt actions are required to improve health workers’ knowledge of COVID-19, address negative perceptions to government responses, and motivate them through monetary, non-monetary, and other likely specific measures to provide effective and efficient healthcare services during the pandemic
Recommendation
We recommend health education campaigns to the less educated HCWs and the public. Continuous provision of PPE and training of all HCWs on proper infection prevention measures are serious and substantial
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