Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practices among healthcare workers in a tertiary care hospital on needle stick injury

Purpose - The study aims to assess healthcare workers' needle-stick injury (NSI) knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP).Design methodology approach - A cross-sectional study was conducted in a 600-bedded hospital throughout six months. The data were collected using an anonymous, self-reportin...

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Published in:International journal of health care quality assurance 2013-01, Vol.26 (6), p.549-558
Main Authors: Bhargava, Aradhana, Mishra, Bibhabati, Thakur, Archana, Dogra, Vinita, Loomba, Poonam, Gupta, Sonal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attitudes
Blood products
Body fluids
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease control
Doctors
Female
Health administration
Health facilities
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health professionals
Hepatitis
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
HIV
Hospitals
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
India
Industrial accidents
Infections
Injuries
Knowledge
Laboratories
Male
Medical personnel
Medical wastes
Middle Aged
Needlestick injuries
Needlestick Injuries - prevention & control
Nurses
Occupational safety
Pathogens
Patient safety
Personnel, Hospital
Physicians
Prevention programs
Questionnaires
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Teaching hospitals
Tertiary Care Centers - manpower
Tertiary Care Centers - standards
Viruses
Workers
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose - The study aims to assess healthcare workers' needle-stick injury (NSI) knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP).Design methodology approach - A cross-sectional study was conducted in a 600-bedded hospital throughout six months. The data were collected using an anonymous, self-reporting questionnaire. Participants were various healthcare workers (HCW) drawn through stratified random sampling and their knowledge, attitude and practice regarding NSI were assessed.Findings - There is significant difference in the mean knowledge, attitude and practice scores among healthcare workers. Even though scores are better for doctors and nurses, practice scores were better for technical staff. Healthcare workers, who had better practice scores, had suffered fewer NSIs. Since this study is a cross-sectional, the population's NSI incidence could not be calculated.Practical implications - This study emphasizes that applying knowledge to practice is required to prevent NSIs. Various recommendations to help prevent and deal with NSIs are made.Originality value - This study analyses healthcare workers' NSI knowledge, attitude and practices, and also assesses their correlation with NSI incidence, which has not been done previously.
ISSN:0952-6862
1758-6542
DOI:10.1108/IJHCQA-04-2012-0035