Knowledge and Practice about Transportation of Infectious Substance among Healthcare Providers, Khartoum State

Abstract

Proper shipping of infectious materials is an important practice to prevent healthcare workers (HCWs), other people and environment from spread of biological threats. The main purpose of this study was to determine healthcare providers' knowledge, and practices about transportation of infectious substances. A self-administered designed questionnaire was used to collect relevant data from study respondents. Primary data were double entered and analyzed by using statistical package for social sciences (IBM SPSS statistics 20). Descriptive, in addition to the effects of predictors on dependent variables were applied. Multiple logistic regression model was used to assess the association between dependent variables and predictors. It has been found that; the overall mean percentage of knowledge was 57.1 (95 CI: 54.1, 60.2), while mean percentage of practice was 68.9 (CI: 95% 66.7 -71.1). Response reliability scale was 89.0% based on Cronbach's alpha. The highest knowledge regarding transportation of infectious substances was observed among laboratory specialist (33.9%) and doctors (25.4%) respectively. High percentage of practice was observed among laboratory specialist was (34.6%) and low percentage was among public health officers and doctors (15.9%). Majority of study respondents did not receive training in transportation of infectious substances (70.9%). Knowledge and practice on transportation of infectious substances among health care providers are low. More efforts are needed to fill the gap in knowledge and practice by applying effective training programs that can lead to increase skills and awareness of health care providers.

Knowledge Among Junior Doctors About the Collection and Transport of Samples for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in a Medical College Hospital in Coastal Karnataka, India

“…Three out of five participants gave correct answers to the questions related to the media of transport for TB samples. In contrast to this, knowledge (25.4%) and practice (15.9%) about transportation of infectious substances among doctors were low in a study from Khartoum state, Sudan [ 12 ]. Another study from north India that focused on specimen collection among the clinicians found deficiencies in the collection and transportation of some extrapulmonary TB samples [ 13 ].…”