Effect of Educational Program About Preventive Care Bundle for Prevention of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Among Newborns

Damanhour University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: educational program about VAP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06066489

VAP in newborns

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to investigate the effect of educational program for nurses about preventive care bundle for prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia among newborns.

Full description

Neonatal ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common nosocomial infection and a frequent reason for empirical antibiotic therapy in NICUs. Ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is defined as a nosocomial lower airway infection in intubated patients with onset after 48 h or more of invasive mechanical ventilation.Prevention of VAP has been primarily achieved by the "bundle approach"; this involves the simultaneous application of several preventive strategies for all patients.In Egypt and other developing countries, reports on the success of VAP intervention strategies, particularly among neonates, are scarce. So, it is important to conduct educational programs for nurses about VAP to decrease its incidence.

Enrollment: 137 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 3 to 30 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Gestational age ≥34 weeks
• Intubated newborns and those expected to receive mechanical ventilation for more than 48 hours.

Exclusion criteria

• Newborns with diagnosis of pneumonia at the time of admission.
• Newborns developed pneumonia in the first 48 hours of mechanical ventilation.
• Newborns subjected to reintubation.
• Immunosuppressed newborns.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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137 participants in 2 patient groups

Nurses

Experimental group

Description:

Nurses will be assessed first about their knowledge about VAP then they will receive an educational program about VAP and will be assessed immediately and 3 months after the program

Treatment:

Other: educational program about VAP

newborns

Experimental group

Description:

the prevalence of VAP will be assessed among all ventilated newborns who will meet inclusion criteria in the study before implementing the program, immediately and 3 months after the program using PNU1

Treatment:

Other: educational program about VAP