TY - JOUR
T1 - Implementing healthcare professionals’ training during COVID-19
T2 - A pre and post-test design for simulation training
AU - Santos, Thiago Martins
AU - Pedrosa, Rafaela Batista dos Santos
AU - Carvalho, Danielle Rachel dos Santos
AU - Franco, Mário Henrique
AU - Silva, Juliany Lino Gomes
AU - Franci, Daniel
AU - de Jorge, Bruno
AU - Munhoz, Daniel
AU - Calderan, Thiago
AU - Grangeia, Tiago de Araujo Guerra
AU - Cecilio-Fernandes, Dario
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by Associação Paulista de Medicina.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has imposed a new reality that presents several challenges for healthcare professionals. The main challenge has been the lack of proper training in relation to an unknown disease. OBJECTIVE: To investigate healthcare professionals’ acquisition of knowledge of a new airway management protocol for COVID-19 through their participation in simulation training. DESIGN AND SETTING: Pre and post-test study with purpose sampling, carried out in a tertiary-level hospital in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional pre and post-test intervention among healthcare professionals working in the intensive care unit and emergency department of a large hospital. The training was carried out using an in situ simulation scenario and the participants answered pre and post-tests consisting of a 20-item questionnaire about the new protocol. RESULTS: The paired-sample t test demonstrated that there was a significant increase in test score (t =-19.06; P < 0.001), from before the training (M = 8.62; standard deviation, SD = 3.53) to after the simulation training (M = 17.02; SD = 1.76). CONCLUSIONS: The simulated training had a positive impact on the healthcare professionals’ acquisition of the COVID-19 protocol. We also demonstrated that in situ simulation training was an efficient tool for implementing new protocols, thus bringing benefits to healthcare systems, professionals and patients.
AB - BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has imposed a new reality that presents several challenges for healthcare professionals. The main challenge has been the lack of proper training in relation to an unknown disease. OBJECTIVE: To investigate healthcare professionals’ acquisition of knowledge of a new airway management protocol for COVID-19 through their participation in simulation training. DESIGN AND SETTING: Pre and post-test study with purpose sampling, carried out in a tertiary-level hospital in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional pre and post-test intervention among healthcare professionals working in the intensive care unit and emergency department of a large hospital. The training was carried out using an in situ simulation scenario and the participants answered pre and post-tests consisting of a 20-item questionnaire about the new protocol. RESULTS: The paired-sample t test demonstrated that there was a significant increase in test score (t =-19.06; P < 0.001), from before the training (M = 8.62; standard deviation, SD = 3.53) to after the simulation training (M = 17.02; SD = 1.76). CONCLUSIONS: The simulated training had a positive impact on the healthcare professionals’ acquisition of the COVID-19 protocol. We also demonstrated that in situ simulation training was an efficient tool for implementing new protocols, thus bringing benefits to healthcare systems, professionals and patients.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85113787563
U2 - 10.1590/1516-3180.2021.0190.R1.27052021
DO - 10.1590/1516-3180.2021.0190.R1.27052021
M3 - Article
C2 - 34378741
AN - SCOPUS:85113787563
SN - 1516-3180
VL - 139
SP - 514
EP - 519
JO - Sao Paulo Medical Journal
JF - Sao Paulo Medical Journal
IS - 5
ER -