article · Clinical Journal of Nursing Care and Practice
This study assessed healthcare workers' knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding hospital-acquired infection prevention at Dessie referral hospital in Northeast Ethiopia. An institutional-based cross-sectional study involved 191 healthcare workers, selected using proportional allocation and simple random sampling. Data were collected via self-administered questionnaires. The results indicated that 86.4% of respondents had good knowledge, and 76.4% held a favourable attitude towards infection prevention. However, a significant 77% demonstrated poor practice. The research concluded that despite good knowledge and attitude, practical implementation of infection prevention guidelines was largely insufficient, highlighting a need for stricter adherence and improved resource provision.
Hospital-acquired infections pose a significant risk to patient safety and public health. Understanding why healthcare workers do not always follow prevention guidelines, despite knowing their importance, is crucial for developing effective interventions. This research highlights a gap between knowledge and practice, which can inform strategies to reduce infection rates and improve patient outcomes.
This research provides insights for organisations involved in healthcare training, policy development, and medical supply chain management. It suggests a need for practical training programmes that translate knowledge into consistent practice, and for improved procurement and distribution of personal protective equipment, water, and handwashing facilities. These findings are early-stage research, identifying a problem and potential areas for intervention rather than offering a ready-to-market solution.
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Introduction: Contact of health care workers and patient at health facility lead to the transmission of pathogenic organisms to each other. Hospital acquired infection prevention is standardized guide lines contain multitude protocols needed to be implemented by health care workers to reduce hospital acquired infections. Objective: To assess health care workers knowledge, attitude and practice towards hospital acquired infection prevention at Dessie referral hospital. Method: Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among health care workers. The subjects were selected by proportional allocation in each respective department and simple random sampling method was employed. Statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data and presented in frequency tables and graph. Results: 191 study subjects were participated in the study which gives a response rate of 90.5% from 211 total sample sizes. The study subjects had given their response according to self-administered questioner. The result indicates that 86.4%, 76.4% and 77% of respondents had good knowledge and favorable attitude and poor practice towards hospital acquired infection prevention respectively. Conclusion: Even though the majority of the health care workers had good knowledge and favorable attitude, more than two third of them had poor practice towards hospital acquired infection prevention. Therefore health workers should strictly follow hospital acquired infection prevention guidelines. Improving sustainable supplies like personal protective equipment, water supply and hand washing facilities at patient care site is vital to correct the poor practice of infection prevention.
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DOI: 10.29328/journal.cjncp.1001019
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