Singla N, Sharma P P, Jain R C
Lala Ram Swaroop (LRS) Institute of Tuberculosis and Allied Diseases, Sri Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi, India.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 1998 Dec;2(12):1005-10.
A tuberculosis institute and a general hospital in Delhi, India.
To investigate the awareness of nurses about tuberculosis and to evaluate the differences in awareness, if any, between nurses working in tuberculosis and those in a general hospital.
A pretested questionnaire survey was performed on 213 nurses.
The present study showed that a substantial number of nurses have inadequate knowledge regarding causative factors, the importance of sputum examination, correct doses of routinely used short-course chemotherapy drugs, the minimum duration of short-course chemotherapy, instructions at discharge, and health education for patients and family members. If responding correctly to 75% of the questions asked is taken as the criterion for satisfactory awareness, only 40.2% of tuberculosis nurses and 10.7% of general hospital nurses had a satisfactory level of awareness. There was no effect of increasing age or years of experience on the level of awareness.
There is a general lack of knowledge regarding various aspects of tuberculosis among nurses. Active interventions are required to improve awareness for a better implementation of the revised national tuberculosis control programme in India.
印度新德里的一家结核病研究所和一家综合医院。
调查护士对结核病的认知情况，并评估结核病专科医院护士和综合医院护士在认知方面的差异（若存在差异）。
对213名护士进行了预测试问卷调查。
本研究表明，相当数量的护士在致病因素、痰检的重要性、常用短程化疗药物的正确剂量、短程化疗的最短疗程、出院指导以及对患者及其家属的健康教育等方面知识不足。若将正确回答75%的问题作为认知令人满意的标准，那么只有40.2%的结核病专科医院护士和10.7%的综合医院护士达到了令人满意的认知水平。年龄增长或工作年限增加对认知水平没有影响。
护士对结核病各方面的知识普遍缺乏。需要采取积极干预措施来提高认知，以便更好地实施印度修订后的国家结核病控制规划。
