Effectiveness of Application of WHO Multimodal Strategy for Improvement of Knowledge, Practice, and Professional Quality of Life of Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 65, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 2021, Pages 1063-1076 PDF (453.94 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.194020 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sohier M. Weheida1; Rowaida Anwar Niazy2; Badria Mahrous Abdel Hamid Mohamed3; Amina Ibrahim Badawy Othman3; Neima Ali Riad3 | ||
| 1Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University | ||
| 2Information System lecturer, International technical female college | ||
| 3Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The application of the WHO multimodal strategy during the periods of the outbreak of COVID-19, is of great importance for improving nurses', knowledge, practice, and professional quality of life. Aim: To Evaluate the Effectiveness of the application of the WHO multimodal strategy on knowledge, practice, and professional quality of life of a nurse's during the Covid-19 pandemic and compare between nurses working in intensive care unit and isolation word about knowledge, practice, and professional quality of life. Design: Quasi-Experimental research design was utilized. Setting: The current study was carried out at general Quwesna Hospital, Menoufia governorate, Egypt. At isolation wards for COVID-19 patients and intensive care unit (ICU). Subject: a purposive sample of (110) nurses providing direct care for Covid-19 patients, they were divided into two groups study group one: (45) nurses in ICU and Study group two: (57) nurses at isolation wards. Tools: Tool I- nurse's socio-demographic and medical data. Tool (2): Covid-19 nurses knowledge assessment. Tool (3): Covid-19 nurses practice Observational checklist, and Tool (4) The Professional Quality of Life scale (ProQOL). Results: A highly significant difference was found between both groups pre/post application of WHO multimodal guidelines about knowledge and practice mean scores. Compassion Satisfaction was increased from an average level to the high level and burnout was decreased from average level to the low-level post-intervention of application of WHO multimodal strategy. Conclusions: The application of the WHO multimodal strategy had been proven to significantly increase knowledge, practice and Professional quality of life mean score of nurses. Recommendations: Applications of the WHO multimodal strategy and replication of the study using a large probability sample from a different geographical area to allow for greater generalization of the results | ||
| Keywords | ||
| WHO multimodal guidelines strategy; Professional quality of life nurses; Covid-19 | ||
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