Knowledge, Practice of Hand Hygiene and Associated Factors with Noncompliance of Hand Hygiene Among Anesthesia Providers Working in TASH Operating Rooms.
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2020-12
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Addis Abeba University
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Background: Hand hygiene is an important measure that can be taken by the anesthesia
providers to prevent and control infection in the operating room. The identification of several
risk factors associated with poor hand hygiene compliance is also of extreme importance.
Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, practice of hand hygiene
and the associated factors with the non-compliance of hand hygiene among anesthesia providers
working at TASH operating rooms.
Method: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was used. The study was conducted at
Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital which is found in Addis Ababa Arada sub city. The study
population were all Anesthesia providers working in TASH operating rooms and data was
collected using self-administered questionnaire from all Anesthesia providers and the data was
entered and analysed using SPSS version 26.
Results: A Total of 101 study participants filled the questionnaires with a response rate of 100%.
The overall assessment of knowledge showed that the majority (60.4%) of the respondents had
good knowledge where as 39.6% of the respondents had poor knowledge regarding hand
hygiene. Regarding the practice of HH, it was found out that 35.6% of the respondents had good
practice while 64.4% of the respondents had poor practice of hand hygiene. Among the
identified factors for non-compliance to HH, it was found out that 78.2% of the respondents
mentioned that being too busy was the most important factor for being non-compliant to HH.
Conclusions: The overall hand hygiene compliance among the anesthesia providers working in
TASH were found to be poor even though their overall knowledge level was found to be above
average.
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Knowledge, Practice, hand hygiene