Healthcare professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding graduated compression stockings: a survey of China's big-data network.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The accurate identification of venous thromboembolism prophylaxis implementation barriers is an important part of prophylaxis prevention. However, in China, data to help identify these barriers is limited. This study has two objectives: 1) to determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) of healthcare professionals regarding graduated compression stockings (GCS) since the launch of the National Program for the Prevention and Management of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) and Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) in October 2018 and 2) to identify the obstacles and assist the program.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of 5070 healthcare professionals in China. We used exploratory factor and reliability analyses to evaluate the researcher-designed questionnaire's re

SUBMITTER: Xu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7690181 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature