Moura MSSD, Santos E Silva RKD, Mendes PM, Sousa ASDJ, Carvalho Neto FJD. Knowledge and use of personal protective equipment by nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Rev Esc Enferm USP 2021;
55:e20210125. [PMID:
34698759 DOI:
10.1590/1980-220x-reeusp-2021-0125]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2021] [Accepted: 09/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To explore the knowledge and use of personal protective equipment by nursing professionals of Primary Health Care during the Covid-19 pandemic.
METHOD
This is an exploratory study of a non-probabilistic sample developed in Basic Health Units in the city of Picos, Piauí, Brazil. Data were collected between June and August 2020, by phone call, following a semi-structured script, with responses recording and transcription. For material analysis, the software IRaMuTeQ was used for statistical textual analyses: Descending Hierarchical Classification, similarity analysis, and word cloud.
RESULTS
From the corpus of 6,873 words and 832 lexical units, three categories were created: (1) motivations and barriers for use (20.9%); (2) handling of personal protective equipment (classes 5 and 4) with 25% and 21.6%, respectively, and (3) measures to protect users and health professionals (classes 3 and 5) with 17.6% and 14.9%.
CONCLUSION
The nursing professionals interviewed demonstrated that they did not have sufficient knowledge for the proper use of the equipment, which could compromise their integrity and that of the patient as a subject who receives unsafe care.
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