Knowledge, attitude and practice of standard precautions of infection control by hospital workers in two tertiary hospitals in Nigeria

Ogoina, Dimie; Pondei, Kemebradikumo; Adetunji, Babatunde; Chima, George; Isichei, Christian O.; Gidado, Sanusi

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“…The major obstacles for noncompliance are shortage of time due to heavy work load and unavailability of personal protective equipment in sufficient quantity while other reasons are getting bored, discomfort by PPE and feeling of no requirement of precaution in each patient. These findings are in concordance with those of other studies [8,13,14].…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Alp et al; [13] described in his study that hand washing compliance among heath care workers is 33%. Dimie Ogoina et al; [14] found in his study that 58.5% health care workers practiced hand hygiene every time after touching patients. Compliance of using Gloves, Apron and Mask among nurses was 80%,20%,48% and 96%,64%,98% in the studies conducted by Anupam et al; [11] and Benzyl Paul et al; [12] respectively while the same was 63%,17%,54% in this study.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Universal Precautions in The Nursing Staff of Tertiary care Hospital

Devaliya¹,

Brahme²,

Shringarpure³

2016

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Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital based settings; with nosocomial infections and their control creating a world-wide challenge. This also adds to the burden of healthcare costs due to added antimicrobial treatment and prolonged hospitalization. Para medical staff, especially nurses is at great risk of exposure to blood and body fluids and other means of spread of infection. This study was conducted to access knowledge, attitude and practice regarding universal precautions among the nursing staff of one of the tertiary care hospital and to identify various hurdles to fulfill the same. A self-administered structure study instrument was used to determine knowledge, attitude and practice of Universal Precaution among nursing staff of one of the tertiary care hospitals of Western India. The study included 52 nursing staff from various department of hospital including Specialty and super specialty departments. It was noted that only 85% of the nursing staff was given training of universal health precaution. Knowledge regarding HIV was satisfactory; all the nurses knew the mode of transmission of HIV. Most important and the basic thing in the prevention of infection is hand washing; knowledge regarding which was seen in all the nurses, however, compliance to hand washing was found only in 40% nurses. Low compliance of hand hygiene, lack of training, heavy workloads, underuse of personal protective equipment's are major obstacles in preventing infection and spread of multi-drug resistant pathogens.

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A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Universal Precautions in The Nursing Staff of Tertiary care Hospital

Devaliya¹,

Brahme²,

Shringarpure³

2016

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“…Most of the respondents (over 90%) had positive attitudes towards SP. This is comparable to previous studies in Nigeria and Italy where most of the respondents were in favour of SP and implies that healthcare workers in general believe that SP is essential in protecting against HAIs (Ogonia et al, 2015;Parmeggiani et al, 2010). The discrepancies in the practice of hand hygiene among our respondents in respect of the moments of hand hygiene are most likely related to formal training.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…A lower knowledge score was reported early this year among Jordanian nurses (Qasem and Hweidi, 2017). However, a previous study in Nigeria revealed a knowledge score of above 90% (Ogonia et al, 2015). The reasons for the wide variations in knowledge of SP across studies could be attitudinal in respect of the health workers' disposition to the detailed study of the SP policy.…”

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confidence: 76%

Standard precautions: Nurses’ knowledge and use in a tertiary health institution in Southeast Nigeria

Arinze-Onyia¹,

Ndibuagu²,

Ozor³

2018

Int Res J Med Med Sci

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The risk for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is high among nurses. This study is aimed at assessing nurses' knowledge and use of standard precautions (SP) in a tertiary health institution in Enugu, southeast Nigeria. The study was descriptive cross-sectional among nurses at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State. A pre-tested questionnaire was used and analysis was done using SPSS version 17. There were 290 respondents, most of them were females (91.7%), married (65.9%) and between the ages of 20 and 59 years. Almost 98% have heard of SP, 77.2% could define it while about 80% knew the indications and could identify most components of SP. Only 43.8% knew about respiratory hygiene. Over 90% agreed that SP is useful in protecting against hospital infections and that employers should provide SP training for their workers. Decontamination of hands was 100% prior to an aseptic procedure and 97.9% before leaving patient's care area. Gloves were the most commonly used PPE (55.2%) while irregular access was the major reason for non-consistent use of PPEs (64.6%). Over 70% of respondents discard needles without recapping. The nurses who work in the ICU ranked highest in exposure to patients' serum (100%) and use of PPEs (88.9%). Those who were trained on SP (68.6%) and PPE (69%) were more likely to use PPEs. In conclusion, knowledge and attitude to SP were good but the practice is suboptimal. Regular training and supply of required materials for SP are indicated.

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“…In another community based study carried out in Nigeria (Adebimpe, 2015b), 40.2% of households were found to have a separate store for loads and food items, while about 21% said their food items such as grains were freely exposed or not in closed plastic containers, amidst daily accumulation of refuse among 5 9 . 2 % o f h o u s e h o l d s s t u d i e d .…”

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Pre-epidemic preparedness and the control of Lassa fever in Southern Nigeria

Olalekan¹

2016

Research Journal of Health Sciences

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The outbreak of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers (VHF) in the West African sub region in recent times had negative consequences on the health systems, international travels, movements and trades. Nigeria is still battling with a significant spread of Lassa Fever (LF) outbreak. The country seems not to have learnt from past epidemics most especially the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak. After the declaration of Nigeria EVD free, most control arsenals were relaxed, isolation and quarantine structures were dismantled and preventive efforts such as provision of Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) for the use of the vulnerable health care workers were not sustained.Several search engines were used in surfing the internet while looking for literatures and systematic reviews on the epidemiology and control of Lassa fever in the West African sub-region, and narrowing down the search to Nigeria. This review presented findings from past outbreaks of Lassa fever in Nigeria and the control strategies adopted, including a review of several researches on the subject matter. Author also presented a framework of epidemic disease control for Lassa fever and other VHFs in line with WHO recommendations: It was observed that past epidemic control measures in Nigeria were not sustained, with little or no emphasis on preparedness. There should be a change in the past strategies employed by the health authorities. There is a need to establish a multi-sectoral epidemic preparedness team to create an enabling environment for managing epidemic alert and response as well as evaluating prevention and control, measures. Recommendations for the roles and responsibilities and modes of operation of such preparedness team were also made.Key words: Lassa fever, Preparedness, Epidemics, Nigeria, Prevention and control.

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Knowledge, attitude and practice of standard precautions of infection control by hospital workers in two tertiary hospitals in Nigeria

Cited by 110 publications

References 17 publications

A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Universal Precautions in The Nursing Staff of Tertiary care Hospital

A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Universal Precautions in The Nursing Staff of Tertiary care Hospital

Standard precautions: Nurses’ knowledge and use in a tertiary health institution in Southeast Nigeria

Pre-epidemic preparedness and the control of Lassa fever in Southern Nigeria

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