{"id":3992,"date":"2020-04-30T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T15:59:16","slug":"knowledge-prevention-pressure-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/knowledge-prevention-pressure-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"How to measure nurses&#8217; knowledge about the prevention of pressure injuries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3996 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/knowledge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"95\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pressure injuries (also called pressure ulcers, although skin ulceration does not always occur) remain a major problem in health care. Healthcare professionals have clinical guidelines that make recommendations for prevention; however, these recommendations are often not well known to professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In this research group CuiDsalud, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/inv\/secoacba-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">project (SECOACBA<\/a>) has been underway for some years to analyse the influence of knowledge, attitude and barriers perceived by nurses in the prevention of pressure injuries. This project, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/equipo\/maria-dolores-lopez-franco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. M\u00aa Dolores L\u00f3pez-Franco<\/a>, is already generating its first results. One of the contributions has been a new questionnaire that allows to measure the knowledge about the prevention of pressure injuries, in a reliable and consistent manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This tool, called the <a href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/questionnaire.PIPK_.vf_eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pressure Injury Prevention Knowledge Questionnaire<\/a> (PIPK), has been validated using Item Response Theory methodology, with Rasch analysis, which has allowed for finer adjustment in item selection. The initial validation study was conducted on more than 400 nurses and assistant nursing technicians at the University Hospital of Ja\u00e9n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The paper describing the development of the questionnaire is avalaible on: L\u00f3pez-Franco, M.D.; Parra-Anguita, L.; Comino-Sanz, I.M.; Pancorbo-Hidalgo, P.L. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-4601\/17\/9\/3063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Development and Psychometric Properties of the Pressure Injury Prevention Knowledge Questionnaire in Spanish Nurses.<\/a> <em>Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health<\/em> <strong>2020<\/strong>, <em>17<\/em>, 3063.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure injuries (also called pressure ulcers, although skin ulceration does not always occur) remain a major problem in health care. Healthcare professionals have clinical guidelines that make recommendations for prevention; however, these recommendations are often &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to measure nurses&#8217; knowledge about the prevention of pressure injuries?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/knowledge-prevention-pressure-injuries\/#more-3992\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to measure nurses&#8217; knowledge about the prevention of pressure injuries?\">Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,60,2],"tags":[62,63,221],"class_list":["post-3992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articulo-cientifico","category-heridas-en","category-news","tag-escalas-en","tag-ulceras-por-presion-en","tag-validacion-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cuidsalud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}