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Missed Nursing Care and its Associated Factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Mansooreh Azizzadeh Forouzi    , Fatemeh Hosseini , Tayebeh Jalali , Mahlagha Dehghan , Azam Heidarzadeh |
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Background and Aim: Missed nursing care has recently been identified as a key indicator for evaluating nursing care quality and patient safety. This study aims to determine missed nursing care and its associated factors during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspectives of nurses working in hospitals affiliated with Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Iran in 2020.
Materials and Methods: A total of 220 nurses working in Rafsanjan hospitals were selected to participate in this descriptive cross-sectional study using convenience sampling. Data were collected using the missed nursing care questionnaire self-administered and a related to factors associated with missed care. SPSS software version 22 was employed to analyze the data with the use of variance, Mann–Whitney U, independent t-test, and Kruskal-Wallis.
Results: The mean age of the nurses was 31.60±6.35 years. The mean score of missed nursing care during the COVID-19 pandemic was determined to be 25.48 ± 5.78, which was lower than the questionnaire's mean score of 52.5. Nurses identified the factors associated with missed care to be "fear of family infection," "staff’s physical fatigue," "high patient workload per shift," and "lack of psychological and emotional support by the organization". Additionally, a significant relationship was found between the type of ward and missed nursing care (p=.007).
Conclusion: This study found that the level of missed nursing care was below the average and could be reduced through effective management. Decreasing caregivers' workload could also help reduce the factors contributing to missed nursing care.
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| Keywords: Nursing care, associated factors, COVID-19, pandemic. |
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Received: 2026/09/22 | Accepted: 2024/06/21 | Published: 2024/06/21
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