Conocimiento y cumplimiento de medidas preventivas para neumonía asociada a ventilación mecánica, Hospital Belén de Trujillo

• Autor: Baca Sánchez, Ysabel Karin
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Trujillo
• Repositorio: UNITRU-Tesis
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:dspace.unitru.edu.pe:20.500.14414/18007
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14414/18007
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Nivel de conocimiento; medidas preventivas; neumonía asociada a ventilación mecánica

The present quantitative, descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional investigation was carried out during 2020 with the purpose of determining the relationship between the level of knowledge and the degree of compliance with preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia, in its different dimensions, in nurses of the critical care unit of the Hospital Belén de Trujillo. The sample universe consisted of 47 nurses to whom a questionnaire was applied to measure the level of knowledge and a checklist to identify the degree of compliance with preventive measures, to measure the relationship between both variables the statistical test of Kendall's tau c, reaching the following conclusions: 72.3% of nurses have an excellent level of knowledge about the preventive measures of pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation, 27.7% have a regular level of knowledge. 76.6% of nurses have an adequate degree of general compliance with the preventive measures of pneumonia associated with mechanical ventilation and 23.4% have an inadequate degree of compliance, 72.3% of nurses have an adequate degree of compliance with the preventive measures. There is a highly significant relationship between the level of knowledge and the degree of compliance with preventive measures for ventilator-associated pneumonia, achieving a Kendall's tau c value of 0.592 with a probability of 0.000.