Nurses' Attitudes Toward Clinical Research: Experience of the Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand factors affecting nurses' attitudes toward the Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest trials and association with approach/consent rates.

Design

Cross-sectional survey of pediatric/cardiac intensive care nurses' perceptions of the trials.

Setting

Study was conducted at 16 of 38 self-selected study sites.

Subjects

Pediatric and cardiac intensive care nurses.

Measurements and main results

The primary outcome was the proportion of nurses with positive perceptions, as defined by agree or strongly agree with the statement "I am happy to take care of a Therapeutic Hypothermia after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest patient". Associations between perceptions and study approach/consent rates were also explored. Of 2,241 nurses inv

SUBMITTER: Browning B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4779735 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature