ArticleBMC nursing2026
Hantavirus preparedness among undergraduate nursing students in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study of knowledge, risk perception and preventive practice.
Article in BMC nursing, 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
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundHantavirus infection is uncommon in many settings but can cause severe pulmonary or renal disease. Nursing students require disease-specific preparedness for exposure-history taking, safe prevention counselling and infection prevention during community and clinical learning. This study examined undergraduate nursing students' knowledge, risk perception and preventive practice toward hantavirus and identified associated factors.
methodsA descriptive analytical cross-sectional survey was conducted among 236 undergraduate nursing students in one nursing program in Ras Al Khaimah, the United Arab Emirates during the 2025-2026 academic year. Data was collected using the researcher-developed Hantavirus Knowledge, Attitudes and Preventive Practices Questionnaire for Nursing Students (HKAPP-NS). Descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, Pearson correlations and multivariable linear regression with HC3 robust standard errors were used.
resultsKnowledge was low among the 236 complete-case respondents (mean 8.13/20, SD 5.84), with 59.0% classified as having poor knowledge. Attitude was moderate (mean 33.34/50, SD 7.78), and overall practice was higher (mean 42.98/64, SD 15.83). Internal consistency was strong across domains (alpha 0.886-0.967). Attitude correlated with overall practice (r = 0.569, p < 0.001), whereas knowledge did not (r = 0.101, p = 0.120). Previous hantavirus teaching, infection prevention and control training and environmental exposure predicted higher knowledge. Attitude was the strongest independent predictor of overall practice.
conclusionsStudents reported comparatively frequent precautionary practice but had important disease-specific knowledge gaps, particularly regarding safe rodent-contamination cleanup, routine vaccine availability, specific antiviral treatment and person-to-person transmission. The finding that attitude, rather than knowledge, independently predicted practice suggests that scenario-based One Health education should combine factual teaching with risk appraisal, self-efficacy building, exposure-history taking and prevention counselling to strengthen future nurses' preparedness for rodent-borne zoonotic infections.
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.