ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
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Factors influencing the intention of the intensive care unit nurses to take preventive measures against deep vein thrombosis: A multicenter, cross sectional study
Provisionally accepted
Jing Nie
Zhengying Jiang*- Chongqing University Cancer Hospital, Chongqing, China
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Purpose: To assess the current situation and factors influencing the ICU nurses' intention to take measures to prevent deep vein thrombosis, and to provide a reference basis for developing strategies to intervene in the same. Methods:A questionnaire survey was conducted on 575 ICU nurses in 16 tertiary care hospitals across China, including a general information questionnaire and the Chinese Version of Nurses ' Intention to Use Deep Vein Thrombosis Preventive Measures Questionnaire (C-NUDQ), to assess the current situation of the ICU nurses' intention to take preventive measures against deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and to analyse the influencing factors. Results: The totalscore of the ICU nurses' intention to take measures to prevent DVT was (93.32±12.62), of which the intention dimension score was (19.24±2.84), behavioural attitude dimension score was (26.34±3.37), subjective normative dimension score was (25.28±3.89), and perceived behavioural control dimension score was (22.46±4.70). The results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that education, years of ICU work, ICU specialist nurses, and they with training in knowledge related to DVT were the main influencing factors in the ICU nurses' intention to take measures to prevent DVT. Conclusion: The intensive care unit nurses' overall intention to adopt deep vein thrombosis preventive measures was at a moderately high level, and the remaining dimension scores that ranked from the highest to the lowest were for behavioral attitude, subjectiv e norm, and perceived behavioral control. Education, years of intensive care unit work, they are intensive care unit specialist nurses, and they had received training in deep vein thrombosis-related knowledge were the influencing factors for the intensive care u nit nurses' intention to take preventive measures against deep vein thrombosis.
Keywords: Nursing, Venous Thromboembolism, prevention, analysis of influencing factor, Intention
Received: 11 Jul 2025; Accepted: 24 Oct 2025.
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* Correspondence: Zhengying Jiang, jiouer1112@163.com
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