author(s)
Vaibhav Bharadwaj and Jasmin

abstract

Background: With a frequency estimated at 1-10% and accounting for 30-40% of all HCAIs reported by hospital settings, urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most frequent HCAIs. Patients who have a catheter placed and remained in place for 48 hours or more are defined as CAUTI according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Present study is a pilot project with an aim to assess the effectiveness of nursing intervention package on knowledge, attitude, and application of nursing officers regarding Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Care Bundle in selected hospitals of Rajasthan.

Method: This was quasi-experimental research in which total 40 nursing officers were recruited by using non-probability convenient sampling technique and then randomly allocated to two groups the experimental and control group. Experimental group has received an intervention named as nursing intervention package of 4-weeks. The pre-test and post-test data were collected by developed tools which is also checked for their feasibility by this pilot study. These tools were Structured Knowledge Questionnaire (SKQ), Attitude Likert Scale (ALS) and Application Assessment Check-List (AAC).

Results: The analyzed data revealed that the mean difference in between experimental group was 11.95, 11.26 & 15.46 while in control group it was 1.77, 1.16 & 1.95 for knowledge, attitude and application, respectively. The F ratio was 14.62, 15.19 & 19.37 for knowledge, attitude and application, respectively while comparison attempted in between experimental and control group.

Conclusion: The study concluded that the provided nursing intervention package found effective to improve the knowledge, attitude, and application of nursing officers regarding Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Care Bundle and recommended to investigate this study at larger scale to strengthen the evidences.