Awareness & Practice of Hand Hygiene among Medical Students of RIMS Ranchi, India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS) - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 5
Abstract
Objective: To find out the practice of personal hygiene and hand hygiene and correlation with its effects on health outcomes among medical students. Methods: At Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences , Ranchi over a period of 3 months. 200 students were selected on random basis from 2nd , 6th & 8th semesters. A pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used to collect data from students, which was distributed to them and collected back. Anonymity was maintained. Data was assimilated in Microsoft Excel 2014 and analysed using SPSS 20 software. Conclusions: Medical students are predisposed to a wide array of infections during dissections ,microbiology and pathology practical classes and during bed side teaching while handling or examining the patients. All medical students are expected to practice standard personal hygiene practice. Universal compliance to personal hygiene among the medical students under study were not found in the current study
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Dr. Dharmendra Kumar, Dr. Ashok Kumar Dubey
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