Analysis of hospital infection knowledge, beliefs, behavior, and influencing factors among healthcare workers in Chinese medicine hospitals in Hunan Province

Abstract

ObjectivesThis study investigated the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of healthcare workers related to hospital infection in Chinese medicine hospitals in Hunan Province. We analyzed the influencing factors and made rational suggestions to improve the healthcare workers’ ability for hospital infection prevention and control in Chinese medicine hospitals based on knowledge, beliefs, and action models. MethodsThe survey participants were selected using multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling. In the first stage, 14 tertiary-level hospitals and 42 tertiary-level hospitals in Hunan Province were selected, and 56 TCM hospitals at provincial, municipal, and county levels were finally covered. In the second stage, 2253 Medical personnel were selected as survey participants from January 2022 to January 2023. The network questionnaire was used to investigate the current knowledge, attitude, and behavior of hospital infection prevention and control by self-compiled questionnaire. ResultsAccording to the self-prepared questionnaire, the survey results show that 2253 Medical personnel scored 35.88 ± 8.96, 98.12 ± 24.61, and 112.27 ± 6.31 on knowledge, attitude, and behavior regarding hospital infection prevention and control, respectively. There was a linear relationship between knowledge and sex, age, working years, education level, job title, and position, with working experience having the greatest influence. There was a linear relationship between attitudes and working years, education level, job title, position, and hospital level, with working experience having the greatest influence. There was a linear relationship between attitudes and sex, age, working years, education level, job title, and hospital level, with education level having the greatest influence. ConclusionsThe knowledge reserve of medical staff in TCM hospitals should be improved. The level of awareness of nosocomial infection prevention when using traditional Chinese medicine techniques is low. Therefore, training is required to strengthen and enhance awareness regarding hospital infection prevention and control among healthcare workers in traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. Moreover, there is a need to adopt stratified management training for healthcare workers of different ages and educational levels, especially to regulate the behavior of junior healthcare workers.