Evaluation of transfusionnal practices carried out by doctors and paramedics staffs at the Yaounde Central Hospital (Cameroon)
Journal Title: The Journal of Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Blood transfusion (BT) is one of the most sensitive activities in a health system due to the nature of the products used. These transfused products can be the vector of several infectious agents and therefore transfusion safety must be strictly controlled at all stages. BT has a prominent place in everyday medical therapy and its use is often urgent. The use of blood products (BP) may be the object of a bad practice by the medical personnel thus the interest of this work, which is to know if the doctors and paramedical personnel’s of the Yaounde Central Hospital use good transfusion practices daily. This work aims to evaluate transfusion practices at the Yaounde Central Hospital. Methodology: We conducted a descriptive and cross-sectional KAP (knowledge, attitudes and practices) study from November 2016 to May 2017. We retained 79 participants after applying the exclusion criteria. The variables studied were socio demographic data, knowledge, attitudes and practices. The statistical analysis of the quantitative data was done using the SPSS Statistics 23 software. Results: Among the 79 personnel selected in the study, 77.2% were paramedics, the most represented were Internal Medical doctors (29.1%) and staff who had practiced between 0 and 5 years, was 39. 2% in majority. All the doctors had good knowledge (83.3%); intensive care unit and emergency ward had the best results on knowledge 90.9%. and 78.6% respectively. Regarding transfusionnal attitudes, we found out that the majority of participants had approximate attitudes (87.3%) on the realization of BT. For transfusionnal practices, we did not identify participants with adequate practices. No association was observed between transfusion practices and transfusion attitudes and between transfusion practices and knowledge. Conclusion: The level of knowledge of medical staff is good. Attitudes are approximately good. Transfusion practices were not always adequate, no practitioner had fair practices. There was no significant association involving knowledge, attitudes and practices. Recommendations: We recommend the implementation of a genuine national BT program favoring basic training that leads to the amelioration of transfusion practice and initiation of continuous staff training session in medicals units.
Authors and Affiliations
Françoise Françoise Ngo Sack, Mendomo Serge Alex, Bernard Chetcha Chemegni, Geukem Dongmo Elwige, Ongolo Zogo Pierre
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