Factors Influencing Nurses’ Work Interruption in Wuhan Isolation Wards During the COVID-19 Pandemic

28 June 2021: Clinical Research

Xiao-Juan Zhou ^1AEF , Yuan-Yuan Dang ^2BC , Xia Wang ^3BC , Wen-Zhang Yang ^1CD , Wei Lu ^1DF , Jian-Hua Zhang ^1EF*

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.929851

Med Sci Monit 2021; 27:e929851

Table 1 General information of participants in this study.

Characteristic		N	%	χ̄±SD
Age				32.81±5.65
Gender	Male	14	8.75
Gender	Female	146	91.25
Education	Junior college	19	11.88
	Undergraduate	136	85.00
	Postgraduate	5	3.12
Have you participated in emergency public incident training?	Yes	96	60.00
	No	64	40.00
Have you participated in emergency public incident treatment?	Yes	42	26.25
	No	118	73.75
Mastery of COVID-19-related knowledge	Low level	50	31.25
	Middle Level	100	62.50
	High Level	10	6.25
Amount of time worked in epidemic prevention and control	7–20 days	35	21.88
	21–30 days	105	65.62
	>30 days	20	12.50
Hours worked in the isolation ward (one shift)	3–4 hours	72	45.00
Hours worked in the isolation ward (one shift)	4–8 hours	88	55.00
About mastery of COVID-19-related knowledge, “low level” means “only being able to identify and recognize what is COVID-19”, “middle level” means “not only being able to identify and recognize what is COVID-19, but also knowing how the COVID-19 infect people and how to prevent it”, “high level” means “knowing of COVD-19 in systematization and specificity, knowing why it is spreading, knowing what to do to prevent it and knowing how to integrate the knowledge and output the knowledge like application of the knowledge and training others”.