Impact of Multi-intervention on attitude among health care professionals on practice of infection control measures in selected wards of hospital at Mangaluru, Karnataka, India
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
Basic infection control measures in any healthcare setup can reduce the rates of healthcareassociated infections. A quasi experimental and Cross sectional descriptivestudy was conducted to assess the impact of multi intervention on attitude among 150 health care professionals on practice of infection control measures in selected wards of the Hospitals at Mangaluru. Result revealed that, among nurse trainee (50), in pretest 6% had negative attitude where as in next three posttest 100% had positive attitude regarding practice of infection control measures. Among the other health care professionals (70), all had (100%) positive attitude regarding practice of infection control measures. The mean pretest score 94.1 among core nurses and 93.6 in trainee nurses, which are significantly increased posttest I,II,& III after the intervention 121.06,121.4,123.2 simultaneously among core nurses and 120.9,122.6,124.5 among trainee nurses. Effectiveness of multi intervention found highly significant among the core nurses (F=93.3) and among trainee nurses (F=173) in changing their attitude regarding practice of infection control measures. Among other health care professionals mean score of attitude was 112.01, which was positive regarding the practice of infection control measures. Study concluded that Innovative intervention programmes are indeed effective for improving attitude of health care professionals in any health care setting. Therefore Hospital Infection control team must provide continuous opportunities to practice skillful infection control measures.
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Mrs. Shalini Lidwin Fernandes, Dr. Larissa Martha Sams, Dr. Diana Lobo
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