“Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients’ dead body care in a tertiary care hospital”

Aim To know the dead body care of COVID-19 patients. Objective 1. To determine health care professionals, knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 dead body care. 2. To find the association of knowledge, attitude, practice with selected demographic variables. Background COVID-19 was a global pandemic and it was a serious note for health care professionals from many aspects. The virus was infective and causes serious infectionsto patients which were easily transmitted, hence specific dead body care is required for such kinds of patients. To keep this background in mind the study was conducted to identify the knowledge, practice and attitude towards COVID-19 dead body care among nurses. Methodology A cross sectional survey based study was done on 282 samples.Quantitative research design with purposive sampling technique data was collected for knowledge,attitude, and practice. Result Knowledge, attitude and practice were assessed and association was done with demographic profile. Hence the good knowledge, attitude and practicewere observed in experienced and trained nurses (p value<0.005. Whereas no significant changes were observed with age, gender and education qualification. Conclusion Overall knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID-19 dead body care were moderate to good. But it was important to identify the gap as it was a global pandemic and higher chances of spreading of infection. ### Competing Interest Statement Authors: Girraj Saini, Prasan Kumar Panda, Mahendra Singh, Manish Kumar Sharma, Pankaj Punjot, Raviprakash Meshram, Puneet Kumar Gupta. ### Funding Statement non funded ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: Ethical clearance was obtained from the institute ethical committee vide letter no AIIMS/IEC/20/558 Dated 22/08/2020 before conducting the study I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable. Yes All data produced in the present work are contained in the manuscript.