Document Type : Original Article
Authors
- . Masoud Khoshnudi
- . Fahime Ghadamgahi 1
- . Gholamreza Najjarzade 1
- . Farzane Habibi Mud 1
- . Nahid Aghaei 2
- . No’man Arab 3
- . Seyyed‑Javad Hosseini‑Shokouh 4
- . Atabak Nikbakht 5
1 Research Unit of Shams Al‑Shomus Nezaja Hospital, Health Administration of Iran Army Ground Forces, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Health in Disaster and Emergency, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Nasibeh Nursing and Midwifery School, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
3 Research Unit of Shams Al‑Shomus Nezaja Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Infectious Disease Research Canter, Faculty of Medicine, Aja University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
5 Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Today, considering the importance of bioterrorism, it may be time to assess the
risk of bioterrorism as an important priority. Nurses, as the broadest group of therapy group, are
very influential in this regard.General aim: To determine the impact of bioterrorism education through
two methods of lectures and booklets on the knowledge and attitude of nursing staff. Practical Aim:
Minimizing the damage caused by bioterrorism attacks by empowering nursing staff.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: This two-group semiexperimental intervention study was performed as a
before and after education intervention with the participation of 80 nursing staff of Shams Al-Shomus Nezaja
Hospital affiliated to Health Administration of Islamic Republic of Iran Army Ground Forces. The study
population included all hospital nursing staff in 2021. The inclusion criteria included having a willingness
and informed consent to participate in the study and exclusion criteria included unwillingness to continue
cooperation and failure to complete more than 10% of the questionnaire by the subject. This study was
performed on 77 nurses in 2021. The nurses were divided into two groups: lecture and booklet. First,
the pretest was completed by the nurses. After the educational intervention, both groups completed the
posttest. Both groups then completed the questionnaire again after about 2 weeks. First, all the data were
measured for normal distribution by the Kolmogorov–Smirnoff test. Statistical description was expressed
for the variables with normal distribution as the ratio of geometric mean ± standard error and for abnormal
variables as mean ± standard error. To compare the means of the studied quantitative variables, t-test
and Wilcoxon matched-paired statistical tests were used. The significance level was considered <0.05.
SPSS.16 and Graph Pad Prism 8.0.1 softwares were used to analyze the statistical data.
RESULTS: Using both methods is effective in improving the level of knowledge and betterment attitude,
but according to the paired t-test in comparison of the two groups, at intervals immediately after training
and 2 weeks after training, a significant increase in the average knowledge score of the lecture group
Statistically shows (P < 0.001). However, the analysis of attitude scores was performed between the
two groups of lectures and booklets, which did not show statistically significant changes between them.
CONCLUSIONS: One of the most important issues in the performance of medical staff in bioterrorism
attacks is useful, effective, correct, and sufficient training. According to the results of the present
study,bioterrorism training leads to increasing the level of knowledge and betterment the attitude of
nurses in the field of bioterrorism. Therefore, the inclusion of training courses in medical centers,
especially military medical centers, is necessary and sensitive.
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