Awareness, attitude and practises of biomedical waste management amongst public health-care staff in Karnataka, India

Golandaj, Javeed A.; Kallihal, Karabasappa Gadigeppa

doi:10.1108/jhass-08-2019-0041

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“…[29] On the other hand, a study in Nigerian settings had better results (81%). [30] This study reveals that about 35% of the respondents considered all the healthcare wastes are mostly infectious.…”

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Covid 19 Pandemic: Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes in Biomedical Waste Management among Health Care Professionals in Tamil Nadu

Palanisamy¹,

Sudharsana²,

Sribalaji³

et al. 2021

APJHM

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Coronavirus, which was started provincially at Wuhan of China, has become a worldwide pandemic by affecting individuals of almost all the world. The developing pandemic of COVID-19 disease requires social distancing and individual cleanliness measures to secure general wellbeing. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practice and awareness of biomedical waste management in this pandemic situation among healthcare workers and medical students across Tamil Nadu. A cross sectional questionnaire survey was prepared to evaluate the knowledge regarding waste management and waste handling techniques. The survey found that most of the hospitals (50%) are using plastic containers for waste collection. Almost 79.7% of the respondents said they follow colour coding while disposing waste. When asked about exact category only few gave correct answers. Nearly 72.8% answered that they collect the Covid patient’s wastes separately. As coronavirus is a contagious disease, each healthcare worker should be trained in safe handling of wastes. From this survey, it is clear that training about safe handling of waste is needed among workers. This survey will help government and healthcare providers to handle this Covid pandemic successfully and more effectively.

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Covid 19 Pandemic: Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes in Biomedical Waste Management among Health Care Professionals in Tamil Nadu

Palanisamy¹,

Sudharsana²,

Sribalaji³

et al. 2021

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“…Regarding demographic data of the studied nurses, more than half of them aged between 20 -30 years and had a previous training program, the most of them were female, more than one-third of them their year of experience ranged between six to ten years. This finding consisted with Golandaj and Kallihal (2020) assessed awareness, attitude, and practices of biomedical waste management amongst public healthcare staff in Karnataka, India & Abd-El-Azem et al, (2017) mentioned that; more than half of the studied nurses aged < 30 years with mean 30.7 + 6.7 years, the most of them was female, and near to half of the studied nurses their experiences > 5 years.…”

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Biomedical Waste Product Management in Pediatric Units and Its Relation to the Occurrence of Occupational Health Hazards

Ali,

Salih,

Mostafa

et al. 2022

International Egyptian Journal of Nursing Sciences and Research

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Background: Biomedical waste management is a vital component of the environmental protection process Aim of the study: To determine biomedical waste product management in pediatric units and its relation to the occurrence of occupational health hazards. Research design: A descriptive exploratory research design was utilized in the current study. Subjects: A convenient sample of 116 health care providers (physician, nurses, and housekeepers) were involved in the current study. Setting: The current study was carried out at Minia university hospital for obstetrics and pediatrics. Data collection Tools: three tools were used in this study, Tool I: knowledge about bio-medical waste management; Tool II: attitudes toward biomedical waste management; and Tool III: occupational health hazards questionnaire. Results: nearly half (48.1%) of the studied health care providers had poor knowledge regarding biomedical waste management, and the majority (83.3%) of them had a positive attitude toward it. Also, there was a fair negative correlation between health care providers' knowledge about biomedical waste product management on exposure to physical health hazards. Conclusion: Pediatric health care providers' knowledge about biomedical waste management need to improve to decrease their occupational health hazards. Recommendation: provide pediatric health care providers continued training to reduce their risk of occupational health hazards, mainly inorganic, psycho-social, organic, and physical health hazards.

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“…To assess the level of awareness, all responses were clubbed in to one variable. The respondents, who have responded for all the three categories has been put as “1” otherwise “0” (Golandaj and Kallihal 2021 ).…”

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Assessment of the awareness about COVID-19 and the following-up of guidelines for biomedical wastes in Jaipur city

Vijay

Modi

Rajput

et al. 2022

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In this COVID-19 era, isolating people and reviewing their contacts has proven to be insufficient to control the COVID-19 pandemic as there was a huge gap between exposure to the virus and isolation due to the late onset of symptoms. This led to the spread of infection and people faced the consequences not only of viral infection, but also of financial and occupational crises. People followed best management practices, however, new variants emerged that caused infection. With little information on new COVID-19 variants and their transmission, the disease spread rapidly in humans. Until now, the link between the spread of COVID-19 and the disposal of biomedical waste with household waste has not been established. Therefore, the only way to prevent infection is to make people aware. It is still necessary to open the doors for research to find the possible cause of the appearance of a new variant of COVID-19. To cope with the situation, the level of awareness among the public and their action towards the prevention of spread of infection caused by COVID-19 and its emerging variants must be known. Therefore, a survey was conducted in Jaipur from January to February 2022 to find out the status of awareness. Results of the survey revealed that both people are aware about the infection caused by COVID-19 and its variants. They are also aware about the precautions to be followed to protect themselves from acquiring COVID-19 infection. Most of the people are using masks but not gloves to prevent themselves from the infection. Merely, 71.6% of young, 100% of adults, 40% of old people sanitize their masks and gloves before disposal. Only 66.5% people are using separate bags for the collection of wastes. Despite of awareness about biomedical waste, 25% of young never sanitize, and 26.13% of young seldom sanitizes their waste before disposal. Such types of cases were not observed in adults and old age groups. Similarly, 2.3% of young did not sanitize PPE kit prior to disposal. Results of this study revealed that there is awareness about the different strains of corona virus and biomedical wastes. However, some people showed casual behaviour in the waste disposal practices. The strict implementation of rules to dispose biomedical waste will be useful for dealing with biomedical waste in this pandemic period.

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Awareness, attitude and practises of biomedical waste management amongst public health-care staff in Karnataka, India

Cited by 8 publications

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Covid 19 Pandemic: Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes in Biomedical Waste Management among Health Care Professionals in Tamil Nadu

Covid 19 Pandemic: Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes in Biomedical Waste Management among Health Care Professionals in Tamil Nadu

Biomedical Waste Product Management in Pediatric Units and Its Relation to the Occurrence of Occupational Health Hazards

Assessment of the awareness about COVID-19 and the following-up of guidelines for biomedical wastes in Jaipur city

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