ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Disaster and Emergency Medicine
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1612790
Current Status of Nurses' Public Health Emergency Response Capacity for Emerging Infectious Disease: A Cross-Sectional Study
Provisionally accepted
- 1Beijing University of Chinese Medicine，School of Nursing, Beijing, China
- 2Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
- 3302 Clinical Medical College, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China
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This study aimed to assess the current status of nurses' public health emergency response capacity for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in tertiary hospitals in Beijing, explore the deficiencies of nurses' emergency response capacity, and analyze the influencing factors in the post-epidemic era.A convenience sampling method was utilized to recruit registered nurses in 3 tertiary hospitals in Beijing from 27 August and 2 September 2024. The research team designed a questionnaire that included basic information section and a section of questionnaire on public health emergency response capacity for EIDs. The overall Cronbach's α of the questionnaire was 0.982. The non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were employed to assess intergroup differences, subsequently leading to the development of a multiple linear regression model based on the study data.
Keywords: current status, Nurse, Public Health, Emergency response capacity, emerging infectious disease
Received: 24 Apr 2025; Accepted: 21 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Qiu, Liu, Meng, Wang and Su. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Xinhua Wang, Fifth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100049, Beijing Municipality, China
Chunxiang Su, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine，School of Nursing, Beijing, China
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