Assessment of Knowledge, attitude and practice of Residents in using face mask for prevention of spread of novel corona virus at Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia .
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2020-12
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Addis Abeba University
Abstract
Introduction
Coronavirus is the second pandemic emerged in 21st century following influenza A H1N1 which
occurred back in 2009. The World Health Organization (WHO) and Center for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) both recommended to use face mask for the prevention of infection in the
health facility. This kind of strategies are very important for resource limited countries with a
very higher case incidence in order to keep safe their medical staff from COVID 19 infection.
The use of face mask as way of infection prevention to work, proper use is very important which
highly depend on the knowledge and attitude towards it of how to use it.
Materials and Methods
We used facility based cross- sectional study design. The study area is Tikur Anbessa
Specialized Hospital. The data was collected using structured self-administered questionnaires.
The data collection tool was adopted from previous study, and modified for this study. The data
was entered to Epi-data V 5 for cleaning and was imported to SPSS V 25 for analysis.
Descriptive analysis and association for the participants was done. The study population for this
study were residents from Anesthesiology, Internal medicine, Obstetric and gynecology and
General Surgery residents working at TAH. The final sample size for this study is 151. Ethical
clearance and support was obtained from Department of Anesthesiology Institution of Review
Board.
Results
There are four major findings of the study. The overall good knowledge of respondents was
found to be 71.5%, Positive attitude was found to be 83.4 % and good practice was found to be
39.1%. The overall practice of facemask was found to be poor. The study also showed very
strong correlation between Good level knowledge and attitude. Internal medicine and Obstetric
and Gynecology residents were found to have good knowledge compared to their compatriots.
In addition, younger residents and residents with higher experience were found to have good
knowledge.
Conclusion and recommendation
The Knowledge and attitude of Residents regarding the use of surgical face masks were found
to be good but practice was found to be poor. This shows more awareness is required about
several aspects such as the types of masks, the duration of using masks and the proper disposal of
the masks.
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Knowledge, Attitude, practice, facemask,corona virus