Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Knowledge and preventive measures regarding Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus among healthcare providers in Tabuk region

Hanan Hassan Elezaby Amer¹, Hanan Abd Elwahab El Sayed^2♦, Amira El-Houfy^3,4, Ebtisam Mohamed Abd Alaal²

¹Associate Prof. of Community Health Nursing, Nursing Department, University College of Umuluj, Tabuk University, KSA
²Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt
³Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Assuit University, Egypt
⁴Nursing Department, University Collage of Aldarb, Jazan University, KSA

^♦Corresponding author
Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

ABSTRACT

The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is zoonotic reservoir pathogen causes several problems in healthcare regimes in Saudi Arabia. Knowledge is very important for health care workers who exposed to high risk levels of new diseases. Aim: to evaluate knowledge and preventive measures toward MERS-CoV for healthcare stuff in Tabuk. Design: A descriptive crosssectional design used in our investigation. Setting: Our investigation conduct at 4 Primary Health Centers in Tabuk region (Sulaymaniyah, Almahragan, Alworood, Almorog) and Umluj General Hospital. Sample: Simple random sample was used to choose 25% of primary health centers, then comprehensive sample (health care providers (HCPs) doctors and nurses from the previously mentioned settings 150 HCPs which include 40 doctors and 110 nurses were taken according to inclusion criteria. Two tools were used for collecting; self-administrated questionnaire sheet: which includes socio-demographic data and knowledge assessment and preventive behavior scale against MERS-CoV. Results: More than half of the studied nurses & 37.5 % of the studied doctors had poor knowledge regarding MERS-CoV and nearly three quarters of the studied nurses and doctors respectively had good preventive measures regarding MERS-CoV. Moreover, a positively correlation reported among total nurses knowledge and their preventive measures regarding MERS-CoV. Conclusion & recommendation: Most of the studied HCPs represented good preventive measures regarding MERS-CoV. While, most of the studied nurses had poor knowledge; regarding MERS-CoV. Therefore, health education sessions to augment HCPs knowledge and preventive measures MERS are recommended.

Keywords: Knowledge, Preventive Measures, Corona Virus, Health Care Providers

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 4604-4614

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