KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICE & AWARENESS OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION AMONG DIFFERENT HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONER: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 8
Abstract
Nosocomial infection is also called hospital acquired infection. These infections are most commonly caused by gram-positive bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus is most common pathogen responsible for these infections and gram-negative bacteria E-Coli is also common pathogen. The common nosocomial infection is pneumonia in ICU and UTI in general wards. The objective was to check the awareness of nosocomial infection between different healthcare practitioners and patients. This study was taken in different hospitals.For the purpose of this a cross sectional study was conducted at tertiary care centre.The sample population was comprised of 20 doctors, 20 pharmacist, 20 paramedical staff, 20 patients and 20 patient attendants. The study based on a questionnaire to achieve the objectives. The result shows that doctors, nurses, and paramedical staff have high percentage of awareness but patients have least awareness about nosocomial infection. Most of the people agreed that hands are the most common vehicle of transmission of organism, but most of the persons do not follow the hand hygiene movements. These infection also spread due to the bad sanitization quality of hospitals , more than 50% hospitals has bad quality of sanitization.Sterilization of ICU and sanitization of other wards should be done to prevent infection. 70% people knew the preventive measure of nosocomial infection, but 30% people do not have awareness about the nosocomial infections so, awareness compaign should be organized to avoid these infections.
Authors and Affiliations
Maria Ayub, Uroosa Ajaz, Ummam Irfan, Syeda Fatima, Sana Mughal, Sadia Naz
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