了解患者和医疗保健工作者对多药耐药生物体的经验和观点
Eliza Watson1, Tess Tsindos2,3, Anton Y Peleg1,4
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University, Level 2, 85 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004, Australia.
JAC-antimicrobial resistance
|June 26, 2023
概括
医疗保健工作人员和患者对多重耐药生物体 (MROs) 感到不确定. 改善沟通和教育对于更好地理解和遵守MRO的感染控制协议至关重要.
科学领域:
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
- 医疗卫生流行病学 医疗卫生流行病学
- 患者安全 患者安全
背景情况:
- 多种耐药生物 (MROs),包括产生卡巴酶的肠杆菌 (CPE) 和抗万科胺素的肠杆菌 (VRE),在医疗保健环境中构成重大全球威胁.
- 现有的知识差距凸显了需要了解患者和医疗保健工作者 (HCW) 对MRO和感染控制的观点.
- 本研究涉及MRO对患者的影响以及HCW对感染控制策略的理解.
研究的目的:
- 探索患者和医疗保健工作者的经验和观点,关于多药耐药生物 (MROs).
- 确定在医院环境中管理MRO的知识差距和挑战.
- 为改善患者理解和HCW教育MRO的策略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 在一个大都市医院进行了一项连续的探索性混合方法研究.
- 与被诊断为MROs的患者进行了半结构面试,以评估他们的理解和医院经验.
- 医疗保健工作者完成了一项关于MRO知识和患者护理的在线调查,使用COM-B框架分析了定性数据,并与定量发现进行了三角化.
主要成果:
- 在患者和工作人员中,确定了MROs的不确定性的中心主题.
- 患者报告说,他们对诊断的解释不足,并对隔离协议的遵守感到担忧.
- 工作人员表示缺乏足够的MRO教育,尽管患者普遍报告了良好的护理和在隔离期间重视隐私.
结论:
- 调查结果强调需要加强针对患者的沟通策略,并改善员工对MRO的教育.
- 实施新的方法可以促进对MRO的更好理解,并促进对感染控制协议的遵守.
- 解决不确定性和知识差距对于医疗机构有效的MRO管理至关重要.
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