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Ioannis Kouroutzis1, Maria Malliarou1
1UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY, LARISSA, GREECE.
Objective:
Aim: To evaluate the knowledge and confidence of nursing students of a Greek university related to Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) insertion and care..
Patients And Methods:
Materials and Methods: A quasi-experimental study using a one-group pretest-posttest design consistent with Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs guidelines. The study was conducted in a university laboratory in March 2024. Participants were followed before and after the training lab. The lab involved 80 nursing students. For the comparison of evaluation score before and after the intervention Mann-Whitney, McNemar and Wilcoxon singed rank tests were used. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was adopted, based on scores' logarithmic transformation. Spearman correlations coefficients (rho) were used to explore the association between knowledge and evaluation scores.
Results:
Results: The knowledge score increased significantly after the lab in total sample and regardless of students' gender and age. The satisfaction was higher regarding the new and important knowledge that students gained and the usefulness of this knowledge in their professional activity.
Conclusion:
Conclusions: The findings underscore the value of incorporating specialized, hands-on training into nursing curricula to enhance students' competencies in advanced clinical procedures.
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