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Hemşire ve Diğer Sağlık Personelinin Cerrahi Dumana Yönelik Bilgi Düzeyleri ve Yaşam Kalitesinin İncelenmesi: Kesitsel Çalışma

Year: 2022
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge level, quality of life and related factors of nurses and other healthcare personnel working in the operating room about surgical smoke.Materials and Methods: The study, which was planned as a cross-sectional, correlational study, has been conducted between 02/14/2022 - 02/28/2022 with 125 nurses and other healthcare personnel working in the operating rooms of Eskişehir and Kocaeli University Hospitals. “Personal Data Collection Form” and “World Health Organisation Quality of Life Scale-Short Form” were used to collect data in the study. Qualitative variables were expressed as frequency, percentage and quantitative variables were expressed as mean±standard deviation and median. Group comparisons were evaluated by One-Way Analysis of Variance, Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test. The relationship between quantitative variables was determined by Spearman correlation analysis.Results: It was determined that 64.8% of the participants were female, 42.4% were nurses, 45.6% worked 40 hours a week, 71.2% did not receive training on surgical smoke, and 76.8% experienced symptoms after surgical smoke exposure. No statistically significant correlation was found between the mean knowledge score and quality of life scores (p>0.05). It was determined that working in the operating room for 21 years or more was associated with the environmental domain sub-dimension of quality of life, and working only in the day shift was associated with the physical domain sub-dimension of quality of life. Working in the operating room for 0-5 years increased the mean knowledge score 4.9 times more than working in the operating room for 21 years or more (OR=4.93; p=0.02).Conclusion: As a result of this study, it was determined that the level of knowledge about surgical smoke has been good, Quality of life was above average, and years of working in the operating room, shift work and weekly working hours were factors associated with the level of knowledge about surgical smoke and quality of life. It is recommended that these factors should be addressed in the trainings to be planned to protect against the harmful effects of surgical smoke and should be taken into consideration in the measures to be taken to improve quality of life and reduce exposure. It is thought that this study will contribute to the literature in terms of increasing the awareness of the operating theatre staff, questioning the effectiveness of the precautions in the operating theatre halls and enabling the evaluation of surgical smoke other than its physical effects.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4406282011
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