Assessment of Knowledge and Attitude on Biomedical waste management among nursing students
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 0
Abstract
Background: Health care waste being a potential source of various life threatening infections requires proper management of biomedical waste. Hence inadequate knowledge in handling of biomedical waste have significant impact not only for those involved in generation of such waste but also among the innocent general population. Objective: 1. To assess the knowledge and attitude on biomedical waste management among the nursing students 2. To determine the effectiveness of educational intervention among the study participants. Materials and methods: The study was conducted among 100 nursing students during Jan-Feb 2018, in a private nursing college, Chennai. A training programme was conducted on Bio-medical waste management and the effectiveness was assessed before and after (1 week) the training programme. Using a pre-validated questionnaire, Knowledge and Attitude of the participants on Biomedical waste management was determined. The Discrete and continuous variables were expressed in terms of Proportion and Mean ± SD respectively. The significance of effectiveness of educational intervention was assessed using Wilcoxan sign rank test.Results: Out of 100 study participants, proportion of participants having poor, fair and good degree of knowledge on bio-medical waste management before and after educational intervention are 68%,27%,5% and 1%,8%,91% respectively. Proportion of participants having favourable and unfavourable attitude before and after educational intervention are 64%,36% and 87%,13% respectively. Wilcoxon sign rank test showed that, the training programme on biomedical waste management improved the Knowledge (Z=-8.660, p=0.0001) and Attitude (Z=-1.978, p=0.048) of the study participants, which was statistically significant. Conclusion: Educational intervention have significantly improved the knowledge and attitude of the participants, hence regular training improves biomedical waste management.
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Suganya. E, Aishwarya Aishwarya, Balaji Arumugam
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