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Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
AIM OF STUDY: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of health care professionals working in Abha primary health care (PHC) centers regarding standard precautions of infection control. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross sectional study included 212 health care professionals in Abha PHC centers. An...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8138372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34041058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1278_20 |
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author | Al-Ahmari, Ahmed M. AlKhaldi, Yahia M. Al-Asmari, Bandar A. |
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description | AIM OF STUDY: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of health care professionals working in Abha primary health care (PHC) centers regarding standard precautions of infection control. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross sectional study included 212 health care professionals in Abha PHC centers. An electronic questionnaire was constructed by the researchers and was used for data collection. It consisted of five parts, i.e., socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge questions about infection control and standard precautions, statements about attitude of participants, practice of health care providers regarding infection control and perceived obstacles against adequate application of standard precautions. RESULTS: Most participants were physicians with Bachelor degree (68.9%, and 45.3%, respectively), while 51.9% had an experience less than five years in PHC. About two thirds of PHC centers (60.8%) had a special and separate room for medical waste. Only 55.7% attended training programs on infection control and 72.6% viewed a memo about coronavirus. About one third of participants (31.6%) had poor knowledge about infection control, 88.2% had positive attitude toward infection control policy and procedures, while 49.5% had poor practice level. There were no significant differences in participants' knowledge or attitude according to their socio-demographic characteristics, while their practices were significantly better among those who got a training program about infection control and those who had an experience <5 years in primary care (p = 0.040, and P = 0.032, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Health professionals have suboptimal knowledge and practice levels regarding standard precautions of infection control, while most of them have positive attitude. Therefore, it is recommended to enforce their training and to increase the supervision in PHC settings regarding infection control policy and procedures. |
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spelling | pubmed-81383722021-05-25 Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Al-Ahmari, Ahmed M. AlKhaldi, Yahia M. Al-Asmari, Bandar A. J Family Med Prim Care Original Article AIM OF STUDY: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice of health care professionals working in Abha primary health care (PHC) centers regarding standard precautions of infection control. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: This cross sectional study included 212 health care professionals in Abha PHC centers. An electronic questionnaire was constructed by the researchers and was used for data collection. It consisted of five parts, i.e., socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge questions about infection control and standard precautions, statements about attitude of participants, practice of health care providers regarding infection control and perceived obstacles against adequate application of standard precautions. RESULTS: Most participants were physicians with Bachelor degree (68.9%, and 45.3%, respectively), while 51.9% had an experience less than five years in PHC. About two thirds of PHC centers (60.8%) had a special and separate room for medical waste. Only 55.7% attended training programs on infection control and 72.6% viewed a memo about coronavirus. About one third of participants (31.6%) had poor knowledge about infection control, 88.2% had positive attitude toward infection control policy and procedures, while 49.5% had poor practice level. There were no significant differences in participants' knowledge or attitude according to their socio-demographic characteristics, while their practices were significantly better among those who got a training program about infection control and those who had an experience <5 years in primary care (p = 0.040, and P = 0.032, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Health professionals have suboptimal knowledge and practice levels regarding standard precautions of infection control, while most of them have positive attitude. Therefore, it is recommended to enforce their training and to increase the supervision in PHC settings regarding infection control policy and procedures. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-02 2021-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8138372/ /pubmed/34041058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1278_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Al-Ahmari, Ahmed M. AlKhaldi, Yahia M. Al-Asmari, Bandar A. Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title | Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title_full | Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title_fullStr | Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title_short | Knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in Abha City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
title_sort | knowledge, attitude and practice about infection control among primary care professionals in abha city, kingdom of saudi arabia |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8138372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34041058 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1278_20 |
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