Factors Influencing Performance of Infection Control among Caregivers with Hospitalized Children

Key Points

• To identify factors influencing infection control performance among caregivers of hospitalized children and provide foundational data for intervention development.
• Cross-sectional correlational study design with 125 caregivers from pediatric wards in two hospitals in D city.
• Data collected using structured self-administered questionnaires between September 7 and December 15, 2020.
• Data analysis involved descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson correlation, and multiple regression using SPSS/WIN 21.0.
• Significant positive correlations were found between infection control performance and knowledge (r=.26, p=.004), self-efficacy in infection control (r=.53, p<.001), and general self-efficacy (r=.18, p=.045).
• Multiple regression analysis revealed that self-efficacy in infection control (β=.47, p<.001) was the only significant predictor of performance, explaining 28.0% of the variance.
• The findings suggest that enhancing caregivers' self-efficacy should be a primary goal in education regarding infection control.