Skip to content
DraconiticResearch
Search Sources API
197,768 studies31 sourcesUpdated 5 min ago
Peer-reviewedCC BYEgyptian Journal of Health Care

Risk Factors of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection among Patients with Trauma in Critical Care Unit

  • Aliaa Ali Ahmed1
  • Samar Faltas Marzouk Faltas2
  • Dina Mohamed Maarouf2
  1. 1Nursing Specialist at Technical Institute of Nursing, Sohag University
  2. 2Professor & Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University
Open at sourcePDFDOICite

Abstract

Background: Lower respiratory tract infection is a broad definition that refers to a variety of infectious inflammatory diseases of the lower respiratory airways, among which acute bronchitis, acute bronchiolitis and pneumonia are major matters of concern. Aim: Identify risk factors of lower respiratory tract infection among patients with trauma in critical care units. Design: A descriptive research design. Setting: This study was conducted at trauma intensive care unit, affiliated to Sohag University hospital, Sohag, Egypt. Subjects: A convenience sample of available nurses (40) and a purposive sample of adult patients (197). Tools: Data were collected through four tools: Patients’ assessment tool; Nurses assessment tool; Nurses’ opinion regarding environmental factors & Incidence of lower respiratory tract infection among patients with trauma in critical care unit. Results: 85.0% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge level & 92.5% of them had satisfactory practice level regarding care of patients with trauma. 80% of the studied nurses agree that environmental factors had positive effect on LRT infection, further (72.1%) of studied patients developed lower respiratory tract infections. Conclusions: There was no statistically significant correlation between total nurses’ level of knowledge in the critical care unit and their total level of practice. Recommendation: providing training programs planned on regular basis to nurses caring of traumatic patients for enhancing nurses’ knowledge and practice to achieve high quality of care.

Related

  1. Occurrence Proportion and Associated Factors of Respiratory Failure During Hospitalization in Chinese Patients With AECOPD: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
    Dandan Liu, Minzuo Chen, Kaosi Wen +4
    The clinical respiratory journalPeer-reviewedCC BYFull textGeneral medicineEurope PMC
  2. Protective effect of influenza vaccine in Brazilian patients hospitalised for severe acute respiratory infection, 2023-2025
    E. Kupek
    medRxivPreprintCC BYFull textEpidemiology & public healthmedRxiv
  3. Clinical characteristics and risk factors for poor prognosis of RSV lower respiratory tract infection: a two-center study.
    Tianyu Chen, Xiaolei Guo, Wenyin Tang +3
    BMC pediatricsPeer-reviewedCC BYFull textEpidemiology & public healthEurope PMCPMC
  4. Clinical impact of the BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Pneumonia Panel combined with antimicrobial stewardship education on pediatric patients with lower respiratory tract infection: a pre–post study from a tertiary center in Nara, Japan
    Daisuke Kitagawa, Antonio Di Lorenzo, Takumi Okamura +9
    Microbiology SpectrumPeer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Full textInfectious diseasePMC
  5. Risk Factors for Metastatic Infectious Complications in Patients with Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection
    Audrey Lanyan, Nicolas Fourré, Virgile Zimmermann +3
    Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)Peer-reviewedCC BYFull textPharmacology & toxicologyEurope PMCDOAJ

Cite

BibTeXRIS
BibTeX
@article{ahmed2026risk,
  title = {{Risk Factors of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection among Patients with Trauma in Critical Care Unit}},
  author = {Aliaa Ali Ahmed and Samar Faltas Marzouk Faltas and Dina Mohamed Maarouf},
  journal = {Egyptian Journal of Health Care},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.21608/ejhc.2026.533643},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.21608/ejhc.2026.533643},
  note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - Risk Factors of Lower Respiratory Tract Infection among Patients with Trauma in Critical Care Unit
AU  - Aliaa Ali Ahmed
AU  - Samar Faltas Marzouk Faltas
AU  - Dina Mohamed Maarouf
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/30
JO  - Egyptian Journal of Health Care
DO  - 10.21608/ejhc.2026.533643
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21608/ejhc.2026.533643
AB  - Background: Lower respiratory tract infection is a broad definition that refers to a variety of infectious inflammatory diseases of the lower respiratory airways, among which acute bronchitis, acute bronchiolitis and pneumonia are major matters of concern. Aim: Identify risk factors of lower respiratory tract infection among patients with trauma in critical care units. Design: A descriptive research design. Setting: This study was conducted at trauma intensive care unit, affiliated to Sohag University hospital, Sohag, Egypt. Subjects: A convenience sample of available nurses (40) and a purposive sample of adult patients (197). Tools: Data were collected through four tools: Patients’ assessment tool; Nurses assessment tool; Nurses’ opinion regarding environmental factors & Incidence of lower respiratory tract infection among patients with trauma in critical care unit. Results: 85.0% of the studied nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge level & 92.5% of them had satisfactory practice level regarding care of patients with trauma. 80% of the studied nurses agree that environmental factors had positive effect on LRT infection, further (72.1%) of studied patients developed lower respiratory tract infections. Conclusions: There was no statistically significant correlation between total nurses’ level of knowledge in the critical care unit and their total level of practice. Recommendation: providing training programs planned on regular basis to nurses caring of traumatic patients for enhancing nurses’ knowledge and practice to achieve high quality of care.
SN  - 3009-6766
SN  - 1687-9546
ER  -