Effect of Training on the Use of Personal Protective Equipment by Simulation Method on the Level of Occupational Anxiety of Nurses Working in Intensive Care Units of COVID-19

Nurses working in Intensive Care Units of COVID-19 are more exposed to occupational anxiety because of the limitations caused by the use of personal protective equipment.

This study was conducted to determine the effect of training on the use of personal protective equipment by simulation method on the level of occupational anxiety of nurses working in Intensive Care Units of COVID-19.

This semi-experimental study was conducted in 2021 with the participation of 50 nurses working in Intensive Care Units of COVID-19 in two selected Aja Hospitals in Tehran. The data collection tools were demographic and occupational anxiety questionnaire of Philip L. Rice (1992). Training on the use of personal protective equipment was conducted through interactive simulation during three 60-minute sessions in each work shift and two control groups (25 people) and test groups (25 people). Questionnaires were administered to people in the form of pre-test and post-test and one month after the intervention and were completed. The normal distribution of the data was performed using the Kolmogorov test and with the help of
SPSS software of version 21.

It is recommended to train the use of personal protective equipment by simulation method with the combination of other training methods in military hospital nurses in Intensive Care Units of COVID-19.