A cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and practices towards nosociomial infection prevention among healthcare workers at Kayunga regional refferal, Kayunga district.
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https://doi.org/10.70572/agp.v2i10.81Keywords:
Nosocomial infection prevention, knowledge and attitude, Health care workers, Kayunga Regional Referral, Kayunga districtAbstract
Background
This study assessed the Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health care workers on the prevention of nosocomial infections at Kayunga regional referral hospital in Kayunga district.
Methodology
A hospital-based cross-sectional design was employed for this study to assess Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of health care workers on the prevention of Nosocomial infections at Kayunga Regional Referral Hospital, involving 66 respondents, including nurses, midwives, clinicians, laboratory, and dental officers. A simple random sampling procedure was used to select participants from each unit at Kayunga RRH, and a semi-structured questionnaire was used to obtain all of the required information.
Results
Majority of respondents were female 40(56%), most being nurses 20(30%), most of respondents had a working experience of less than 5 years 21(32%), Majority of the respondents 62 (94%) were knowledgeable of the WHO moments of Hand washing, while only 4(6%) were not aware of the moments of hand-washing, 100% knew the definition and 58(88%) of the respondents had familiarity with hospital-acquired infection prevention guidelines. 36(55%) reported to always using the IP guidelines/manuals at workplace, 15(23%) used the manual sometimes or never, 51(77%) of the respondents said they recap a needle after use.
Conclusion
Most of the respondents at Kayunga regional referral hospital have adequate knowledge of nosocomial infection prevention, a good attitude, and good practice, as evidenced by the high score in the positive findings of the study.
Recommendation
There is a need to continue improving the health workers' engagement in the prevention of nosocomial infections in all spheres, especially in those that were poorly scored by increasing the continuous medical education on hand washing moments, to increase outcomes in the infection prevention and control, hence nosocomial infections
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