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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Insulin Pump Among Non-Endocrinology Nurses in South China
Cuiying Mo1, Xufen Huang2, Xiaohua Lu3
1Department of Endocrinology, The First People's Hospital of Foshan, Foshan, People's Republic of China.
Purpose:
To investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) on insulin pump among non-endocrinology nurses in Southern China.
Methods:
This multicenter cross-sectional study enrolled non-endocrinology nurses in Southern China between November 2020 and December 2020. A structured questionnaire about insulin pumps was designed and used to collect data.
Results:
A total of 1118 nurses from 29 hospitals participated in the study. The majority of them were female (98.48%), and 513 worked in the department of internal medicine (45.89%), followed by surgery (235, 21.00%), pediatrics (147, 13.14%), gynecology (127, 11.35%), and oncology (96, 8.71%). None of the nurses answered all questions correctly in the knowledge section. The score of knowledge was 50.12 ± 3.42 (total score range, 0 to 85). The attitude score of nurses in the department of gynecology was 47.76 ± 5.11 (total score range, 10 to 50), followed by nurses in the department of internal medicine (47.43 ± 4.65), pediatrics (46.71 ± 4.96), surgery (46.77 ± 5.78) and oncology (46.25 ± 5.87). The practice score of nurses in the internal medicine department was 79.16 ± 9.03 (total score range, 17 to 85), followed by nurses in the department of gynecology (78.76 ± 10.76), surgery (78.14 ± 10.09), oncology (76.89 ± 12.70) and pediatrics (73.35 ± 19.04).
Conclusion:
There was limited knowledge regarding insulin pumps among nurses, although they had a positive attitude and attached importance to the management of insulin pumps. In clinical practice, their implementation of insulin pump management norms was acceptable.
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