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KMID : 0928020210250010047
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Nursing and Innovation
2021 Volume.25 No. 1 p.47 ~ p.55
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Factors Related to Infection Control Performance of Care Workers in Nursing Homes
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Hong Kyung-Hee
Song Hyo-Jeong
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to identify the knowledge of infection prevention and the performance of infection control for care workers and provide the necessary data of the infection control education program for care workers.
Methods: Participants in this study were care workers working at the Jeju area’s nursing homes. The number of all subjects was 190, and the data were collected by using self-report questionnaires from May 20 to June 28, 2014.
Results: Performance of infection control has a statistically significant difference by age (F=2.80, p=.041) and experiences of infection prevention management education (t=2.53, p=.015). It showed that the care worker’s knowledge of infection prevention positively correlates with infection control performance (r=.31, p<.001). The knowledge of infection prevention was the primary factor that impacted the care worker’s infection control performance by explaining 15.0% of the variance.
Conclusion: The results showed that knowledge of infection prevention was the major factor that impacted infection control performance. Therefore, it is vital to develop and apply the program to improve the care worker’s knowledge of infection prevention and infection control performance.
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KEYWORD
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Infection control, Knowledge, Nursing homes
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