Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Infection Prevention Measures among Healthcare Workers in Areza Sub-Zone, Eritrea
*Corresponding Author:Received Date: Apr 17, 2024 / Published Date: May 15, 2025
Citation: Welday SJ, Berhe AT, Sereke ST (2025) Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards Infection Prevention Measures among Healthcare Workers in Areza Sub-Zone, Eritrea. J Community Med Health Educ 15: 932.
Copyright: © 2025 Welday SJ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background: Healthcare professionals are constantly exposed to microorganisms. Many of which can cause serious or even lethal infections. Hospital-acquired infection prevention standardized guidelines contain a multitude of protocols that need to be implemented by healthcare workers to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
Objective: To assess knowledge, attitude and practice towards infection control measures among healthcare workers in 7 health facilities of Areza Sub-Zone.
Methods: A cross-sectional study design was employed. All HCWs (56) were included in the study. A selfadministered questionnaire was used to collect data. Collected data was checked, coded and transferred to SPSS version 22 for analysis and presented in tables.
Results: 56 study subjects have participated in the study which gives a response rate of 100%. The majority of the respondents 51 (91.1%) had ever participated in the training program. Most of the participants were female; 31 (55.4%) while 25 (44.6%) were male. The study showed that 28.6% of the respondents were aged below 25 years with less than five years of clinical experience. The majority of them were from Maidma Health Center (37.5%) and Areza Health Center (35.7%). They were dominated by nurses (82.1%). The result indicates that 92.9%, 83.9% and 8.9% of respondents had good knowledge and favorable attitudes and poor practices towards health facilityacquired infection prevention respectively.
Conclusion: Most of the respondents had good knowledge and a considerable high level of attitude but the majority of respondents had poor practices i.e., they do not always wear masks and glasses and wash their hands according to the recommendations of the guideline. Strengthening and integrating standard precaution with routine services through the provision of regular training and monitoring and introducing health care workers infection prevention standards of practice, protocol, rules and regulations are highly recommended.
