Kundu Purnima, De Binapani, Pandit Lakhsmi
Principal, College of Nursing, Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Senior Lecturer, College of Nursing, BMC&H, Bankura, West Bengal, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2023 Jan-Mar;67(1):61-65. doi: 10.4103/ijph.ijph_921_22.
At the beginning of pandemic, many of the nurses were scared of contracting COVID infection by themselves. The work of nurses during the pandemic was highly appreciated by the society though they worked with severe challenges. Hence, it was utmost necessary to explore the attitude of the nurses toward COVID care and what challenges they faced during caring for the COVID patients.
The main objectives of the study were to assess the attitude of the nurses toward working in COVID units, to identify the challenges faced by the nurses, and to find out the relationship between the nurses attitude and challenges.
The study was carried out adopting descriptive survey design with 190 conveniently selected staff nurses working in the selected COVID care units of Kolkata and Bankura. Two self-developed rating scales were administered using self-reporting method to measure the attitude and challenges of the nurses.
All the staff nurses expressed their favorable (positive) attitude. Maximum (64.21%) of the staff nurses had a high level of challenges. A very weak positive correlation found between attitude of the staff nurses toward COVID care and challenges they faced (ρ = 0.197, P = 0.006). Computation of Chi-square test revealed that neither attitude nor challenges was influenced by any of the personal characteristics of the nurses.
In spite of working with a high level of challenges, the majority of the nurses demonstrated favorable attitude toward taking care of COVID patients.
在疫情初期，许多护士害怕自己感染新冠病毒。尽管护士们在疫情期间面临严峻挑战，但他们的工作得到了社会的高度赞赏。因此，极其有必要探究护士对新冠护理的态度以及他们在护理新冠患者时面临哪些挑战。
本研究的主要目的是评估护士对在新冠病房工作的态度，确定护士面临的挑战，并找出护士态度与挑战之间的关系。
本研究采用描述性调查设计，对加尔各答和班库拉选定的新冠护理病房中方便选取的190名在职护士进行研究。使用自行编制的两个评定量表，采用自陈法来测量护士的态度和挑战。
所有在职护士都表达了他们积极的态度。大多数（64.21%）在职护士面临着高水平的挑战。在职护士对新冠护理的态度与他们所面临的挑战之间存在非常微弱的正相关（ρ = 0.197，P = 0.006）。卡方检验计算结果显示，护士的态度和挑战均不受其任何个人特征的影响。
尽管面临高水平的挑战，但大多数护士对护理新冠患者仍表现出积极的态度。
