Mediating Effect of Infection Prevention and Control Culture on the Relationship between Moral Sensitivity and Safety Behavior of Pediatric Nurses
LI Daoxing
JIANG Zihan
ZUO Li
TIAN Yufei
SHEN Chen
ZHANG Jingchao
Abstract：Objective To explore the mediating effect of infection prevention and control culture on the relationship between pediatric nurses'moral sensitivity and safe behavior.Methods Using convenient sampling,a total of 478 pediatric nurses from seven tertiary grade A general hospitals in Beijing were selected as study subjects from October to December 2024.Questionnaire surveys were conducted using general information questionnaire,Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire-Revised Chinese Version,Leading a Culture of Quality for Infection Prevention,Nurse Safety Behavior Questionnaire.Results The scores of pediatric nurses'moral sensitivity,infection prevention and control culture,and safe behavior were(46.91±6.12),(63.21±10.07),and(50.50±8.47)respectively.Moral sensitivity,infection prevention and control culture and safe behavior were positively correlated in pairs(r1=0.464,r2=0.504,r3=0.767,all P<0.01).Infection prevention and control culture played a partial mediating effect between moral sensitivity and safe behavior,accounting for 49.01%of the total effect.Conclusion The moral sensitivity and infection prevention and control culture of pediatric nurses are both at a moderately high level,and their safety behavior is at a relatively high level.Infection prevention and control culture serves is a mediating variable between their moral sensitivity and safe behaviors.Nursing managers should prioritize enhancing pediatric nurses'moral education,improving their moral sensitivity,enhancing their cognition of infection prevention and control culture,and optimizing infection prevention and control management to ensure patient safety.
Keywords：pediatric nurseinfection prevention and control culturemoral sensitivitysafe behaviornursingmediating effect
Publication Date：2026-01-10
Online Publishing Date：2026-02-04(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 19-23 )