Khan Jamal Azfar, Kiani Muhammad Rizwan Bashir
Department of Internal Medicine, Combined Military Hospital Landi Kotal Cantt, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Army Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2020;17:19. doi: 10.3352/jeehp.2020.17.19. Epub 2020 Jun 29.
This study aimed to evaluate perceptions of safety and preparedness among health workers caring for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients before and after a multi-professional simulation-based course in Pakistan. Health workers’ perceptions of preparedness, safety, and their willingness to care for COVID-19 patients were measured before and after they attended a simulation-based training course to prepare them to care for COVID-19 patients at Combined Military Hospital Landi Kotal Cantt, from March 1 to April 30, 2020. The participants’ perceived level of safety and preparedness to care for COVID-19 patients before the simulation-based course was low, but increased after completing it (P<0.05). They felt confident and were significantly more willing to care for patients with COVID-19 or other infections requiring strict isolation. Simulation-based training is an effective tool to improve perceptions of risk and readiness to deal with COVID-19 among medical and non-medical health workers in Pakistan.
本研究旨在评估巴基斯坦在开展基于多专业模拟的课程前后，护理2019冠状病毒病（COVID-19）患者的医护人员对安全性和准备情况的认知。在2020年3月1日至4月30日期间，医护人员在兰迪科塔尔联合军事医院参加了一项基于模拟的培训课程，以准备护理COVID-19患者，在此前后，对他们护理COVID-19患者的准备情况、安全性以及护理意愿进行了测量。在基于模拟的课程之前，参与者对护理COVID-19患者的安全和准备程度认知较低，但在完成课程后有所提高（P<0.05）。他们感到有信心，并且明显更愿意护理COVID-19患者或其他需要严格隔离的感染患者。基于模拟的培训是提高巴基斯坦医疗和非医疗医护人员对风险的认知以及应对COVID-19的准备程度的有效工具。
