scholarly journals Development and validation of the knowledge and attitude regarding childhood vaccination (KACV) questionnaire among healthcare workers: the Malay version

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Azidah Abdul Kadir ◽  
Norhayati Mohd Noor ◽  
Ahmad Faiq Mukhtar
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Childhood Vaccination ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Development And Validation

scholarly journals Hand Hygiene Compliance Study at a Large Central Hospital in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cam Le ◽  
Erik Lehman ◽  
Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Timothy Craig
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Compliance Rate ◽  
World Health ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Hygiene Compliance

Lack of proper hand hygiene among healthcare workers has been identified as a core facilitator of hospital-acquired infections. Although the concept of hand hygiene quality assurance was introduced to Vietnam relatively recently, it has now become a national focus in an effort to improve the quality of care. Nonetheless, barriers such as resources, lack of education, and cultural norms may be limiting factors for this concept to be properly practiced. Our study aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers toward hand hygiene and to identify barriers to compliance, as per the World Health Organization’s guidelines, through surveys at a large medical center in Vietnam. In addition, we aimed to evaluate the compliance rate across different hospital departments and the roles of healthcare workers through direct observation. Results showed that, in general, healthcare workers had good knowledge of hand hygiene guidelines, but not all believed in receiving reminders from patients. The barriers to compliance were identified as: limited resources, patient overcrowding, shortage of staff, allergic reactions to hand sanitizers, and lack of awareness. The overall compliance was 31%; physicians had the lowest rate of compliance at 15%, while nurses had the highest rate at 39%; internal medicine had the lowest rate at 16%, while the intensive care unit had the highest rate at 40%. In summary, it appears that addressing cultural attitudes in addition to enforcing repetitive quality assurance and assessment programs are needed to ensure adherence to safe hand washing.

scholarly journals Healthcare workers knowledge and attitude toward palliative care in an emerging tertiary centre in South-West Nigeria

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JosephO Fadare ◽  
AbimbolaM Obimakinde ◽  
JideM Afolayan ◽  
SundayO Popoola ◽  
PatrickT Adegun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Tertiary Centre ◽  
South West ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

scholarly journals Assessing applications for healthcare workers and providers: Development and validation of the 17-item scale, the ISYScore-Pro a Delphi Expert Panel Study (Preprint)

10.2196/17660 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Immaculada Grau-Corral ◽  
Percy Efran Pantoja ◽  
Francisco J. Grajales III ◽  
Belchin Kostov ◽  
Valentí Aragunde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Expert Panel ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Item Scale

scholarly journals Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning SARS-CoV-2 among Healthcare Workers in Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Age Range

Background: The healthcare workers are leading the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and are at great risk of acquiring the infection. The information on the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers towards SARS‐CoV-2 is useful to plan awareness and educational programs. Aim: To assess the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers toward SARS‐CoV-2 in Mirpur, AJK, Pakistan. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed during March and April 2020, on 468 healthcare workers in a tertiary care divisional headquarters teaching hospital of Mirpur, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data through a face to face approach. The data were organized and statistically analyzed through SPSS version 21.0. Results: A total of 520 healthcare workers were approached and 468 of them filled and returned the questionnaire, giving a response rate of 90.0%. The age range of the participants was 18 to 59 years with a mean of 31.5 ± 4.9 years. The majority of respondents were males (62.4%) and more than half of the participants (62.1%) had knowledge of the SARS‐CoV-2 outbreak and their main source of information was television (51.2%). Overall, 60.6% had sufficient knowledge of the disease and 79.7% had a positive attitude towards SARS‐CoV-2. Conclusion: The outcomes of our study revealed that overall healthcare workers had an acceptable level of knowledge and a positive attitude towards the SARS‐CoV-2 outbreak.

scholarly journals Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal among employees of a safety net California county health system with an early and aggressive vaccination program: Results from a cross-sectional survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Gatto ◽  
Jerusha E Lee ◽  
Donatella Massai ◽  
Susanna Zamarripa ◽  
Bijan Sasaninia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Childhood Vaccination ◽  
Vaccine Hesitancy ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Vaccine Acceptance ◽  
Job Classification

Information on vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers is needed as health professionals provide front line care to COVID-19 patients. We developed and implemented an anonymous internet-based cross-sectional survey with direct solicitation among employees of a safety net health system. Items queried demographic and health-related characteristics, experience with and knowledge of COVID-19, and determinants of decisions to vaccinate. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance groups (acceptors, hesitant, refusers) were defined; an adapted version of the WHO vaccine hesitancy scale was included. The survey demonstrated good reliability (Cronbachs alpha = 0.92 for vaccine hesitancy scale; 0.93 for determinants). General linear and logistic regression methods examined factors which were univariately associated with vaccine hesitancy and vaccine acceptance, respectively. Multivariable models were constructed with stepwise model-building procedures. Race/ethnicity, marital status, job classification, immunocompromised status, flu vaccination and childhood vaccination opinions independently predicted hesitancy scale scores. Gender, education, job classification and BMI independently predicted acceptance, hesitancy and refusal groups. Among hesitant employees, uncertainty was reflected in reports of motivating factors influencing their indecision. Despite a strong employee-support environment and job protection, respondents reported physical and mental health effects. Appreciation of varied reasons for refusing vaccination should lead to culturally sensitive interventions to increase vaccination rates in healthcare workers.

scholarly journals Healthcare Workers Knowledge, Attitude, and Availability of Facilities Toward Compliance Hand Hygiene

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Richa Noprianty ◽  
Gendis Kintan Dwi Thahara
Keyword(s):  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Compliance Rate ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Hygiene Compliance ◽  
Healthcare Associated

Failure to perform good hand hygiene is considered as an major cause of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). From the WHO data, compliance rate of nurses hand hygiene activity at the United States is about 50%, Australia 65% while in Indonesia 47%. This study aims to determine healthcare workers knowledge, attitude, and availability of facilities toward that affect hand hygiene compliance. This research method is analytical descriptive with cross-sectional approach. The object of data collection is an healthcare workers (nurse, doctor, and pharmacy) at General Hospitalin West Java as many as 51 samples. Sample selection using stratified sampling method with research instrument in the form of questionnaire and observation sheet about knowledge and attitude to hand hygiene adopted from WHO. The results of this study that obtained in the group of nurse were 48.6% doing imperfect hand hygiene and group of doctor respectively 80.0% and pharmacy were 100.0%. In terms of nurses knowledge about hand hygiene is 59.5%, doctor80.0% and pharmacy 50.0%. In terms of attitudes about the implementation of hand hygiene, the nurses group is 48.6%, doctors respectively 40% and pharmacy 50.00% have a positive attitude. In terms of facilities is 40.5% nurses stated available, doctors 20% and pharmacy 0.00%. There was a significant relationship between hand hygiene with knowledge (p = 0,019), attitude (0.004) and hand hygiene facility (p = 0.040).   Keywords: attitude, hand hygiene, health care, knowledge

scholarly journals Healthcare workers’ knowledge and attitude towards prompt referral of women with postpartum haemorrhage in Nigeria: a community-based study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Adekemi Eunice Olowokere ◽  
Aanuoluwapo Omobolanle Olajubu ◽  
Ifeoluwa Eunice Ayeni ◽  
Olayinka Olaitan Aremu
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Postpartum Haemorrhage ◽  
Early Recognition ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Emergency Obstetric Care ◽  
Estimate Blood Loss ◽  
Obstetric Care ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Background: Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) is a major contributor to maternal mortality in developing countries most especially in the rural areas where Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) are not available. Delay in referring women from rural health facilities to settings where EmOC services are available have been reported. This study assessed community-based healthcare workers’ (CHWs) knowledge and attitude towards the prevention, early recognition and prompt referral of women with Post-Partum Haemorrhage (PPH) for Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC).Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional design was used. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 CHWs recruited from community-based healthcare. Data analysis was done in SPSS version 20 at significance level of 0.05.Results: Findings show that 86.5% (n=173) of the respondents had good knowledge while 12% (n=24) and 1.5% (n=3) had moderate and poor knowledge respectively. Negative attitude towards prompt referral of women affected with PPH was found among 51% (n=102) of the respondents. Unavailability of blood drapes to estimate blood loss [χ2 (1, n=200) = 4.51, p=0.03], lack of ambulance [χ2 (1, n=200) = 4.46, p=0.03], and poor state of the roads [χ2 (1, n=200) = 4.44, p=0.03] were factors linked to poor attitude of CHWs towards prompt referral of affected women.Conclusions: The study concluded that there is a need for intervention that can help improve community healthcare workers’ attitude towards prompt referral of women affected with postpartum haemorrhage. There is also a need for general overhaul of community-based facilities to effectively support prompt referral.

Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Paramedic Health Care Workers Towards COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1482-1487
Author(s):  
Cecyli C ◽  
Ezhilarasan G
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Adequate Knowledge ◽  
Electronic Distribution ◽  
Knowledge Practice ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Mankind is experiencing another remarkable involvement in the quickly spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Besides, the sickness fundamentally influences regular daily existence, bringing about a financial emergency. Moreover, the highest risk of getting COVID-19 is for the front line Healthcare workers (HWs). Therefore, utmost importance to evaluate their knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding COVID -19 is needed. An online Cross-sectional research design was utilized for the study. An aggregate of 100 paramedic health workers (Nurses, Pharmacist, Lab technician and Allied health technicians) were chosen using a convenient sampling technique. Data were gathered among eligible healthcare workers through an online survey by electronic distribution of self-administered questionnaire developed by the investigator. The results depict that 80% had adequate knowledge, 84.6% had a positive attitude towards COVID-19 and 88% of participants had appropriate practice related to COVID-19.  There was a positive relationship noted among knowledge and attitude(r=0.114),attitude-practice(r=0.283) and knowledge-practice(r=0.177) at p<.05 and p<.01level respectively.The outcome found that there is no huge affiliation found between selected demographic variables such as age, residence, marital status and source of information but gender and years of experience was significantly associated with knowledge and practice (p=5.18) at p<0.01 and profession was significantly associated with attitude (p=10.92) at p<0.001.

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