Trial reportNursing in critical care2026
Effect of Short Messages on ICU Nurses' Knowledge and Performance Regarding Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention: A Quasi-Experimental Study.
Trial report in Nursing in critical care, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundVarious teaching methods have been used to train healthcare staff in ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention. Despite the positive results of blended learning in increasing nurses' knowledge and performance, there is a lack of robust, generalisable evidence on the medium- or long-term effectiveness of text messages as part of educational packages and microlearning on the sustainability of these outcomes.
aimThis study aims to examine the effectiveness of two teaching methods-lecture-based and blended (lecture plus text messages)-on nurses' knowledge and performance in VAP prevention in Kermanshah. STUDY
designSixty Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses participated in a training session, randomly divided into intervention and control groups. The intervention group received educational messages containing key points from the training session every other day for 2 weeks; the control group did not receive messages. Knowledge and performance were measured before and after using a validated questionnaire to assess changes.
resultsThe intervention and control groups each had 30 participants. Most nurses were women (n = 40, 66%), over half were over 30 years old (n = 28, 53%) and a significant proportion had less than 10 years of experience (n = 52, 86%). At pre-test, the mean knowledge scores were 21.1 ± 2.9 (intervention) and 20.2 ± 2.9 (control), with performance scores of 120.8 ± 10.4 and 120.1 ± 13.4, respectively. In post-test, the intervention group showed statistically significant improvements in knowledge (20.2 ± 1.5 vs. 22.1 ± 1.9; p < 0.001), performance (126.9 ± 8.2 vs. 120.8 ± 9.7; p < 0.02).
conclusionsOngoing short message service (SMS) reminders improved nurses' knowledge and performance in VAP prevention. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: This study demonstrates that a low-cost, affordable educational programme based on continuous repetition with brief content (short reminder short message service [SMS]) can significantly improve intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' knowledge and adherence to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention measures. Implementing such simple, concise interventions within continuing clinical education programmes can sustainably reinforce infection prevention behaviours and, in resource-limited settings, lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced care costs.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.