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Trial reportAmerican journal of infection control2020

A simulation approach to measure critical safety behaviors when evaluating training methods for respirator education in healthcare workers.

Elizabeth L Beam, Jocelyn J Herstein, Kevin A Kupzyk, Shawn G Gibbs

Open access · bronzeAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in American journal of infection control, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elizabeth L BeamCollege of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, Omaha, NE. Electronic address: ebeam@unmc.edu.
Jocelyn J HersteinNebraska Biocontainment Unit, Omaha, NE; Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, Omaha, NE.
Kevin A KupzykCollege of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.
Shawn G GibbsTexas A & M School of Public Health, College Station, TX.
Nebraska Medical Center · USTexas A&M Health Science Center · USUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe N95 respirator is the most common safety tool used in hospitals to protect health care workers (HCW) from inhaling airborne particles. Focusing on HCW behavior related to respirator use is an effective route to improve HCW safety and respiratory health.

methodsParticipants were asked to perform the donning and doffing of an N95 respirator to camera. Then they were randomized to a video alone or a reflective practice intervention. After the intervention they repeated the donning and doffing to camera. A critical safety behavior scoring tool (CSBST) was developed to compare the performance of the participants over time at pretest, post-test and 1 month later for follow-up.

resultsThe reflective practice intervention group was found to have significantly higher scores on the CSBST at post-test and follow-up than the video alone group. In the reflective practice intervention group, the participants perceived they were better at performing the N95 donning and doffing than the experts scored them.

conclusionsThe CSBST is a tool to measure the performance of HCWs on a specific targeted safety behaviors. The addition of a reflective practice intervention may result in a measurable and sustained improvement in the safety behaviors demonstrated when using the N95 respirator.

Indexed as

Respiratory Protective DevicesHealth PersonnelHumansVentilators, MechanicalInfection controlOccupational healthPersonal protective equipment

Identifiers

PMID32407827
PMCPMC7214345
OpenAlexW3021411426

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