Abstract
Proper shipping of infectious materials is an important practice to prevent healthcare workers (HCWs), other people and environment from spread of biological threats. The main purpose of this study was to determine healthcare providers' knowledge, and practices about transportation of infectious substances. A self-administered designed questionnaire was used to collect relevant data from study respondents. Primary data were double entered and analyzed by using statistical package for social sciences (IBM SPSS statistics 20). Descriptive, in addition to the effects of predictors on dependent variables were applied. Multiple logistic regression model was used to assess the association between dependent variables and predictors. It has been found that; the overall mean percentage of knowledge was 57.1 (95 CI: 54.1, 60.2), while mean percentage of practice was 68.9 (CI: 95% 66.7 – 71.1). Response reliability scale was 89.0% based on Cronbach's alpha. The highest knowledge regarding transportation of infectious substances was observed among laboratory specialist (33.9%) and doctors (25.4%) respectively. High percentage of practice was observed among laboratory specialist was (34.6%) and low percentage was among public health officers and doctors (15.9%). Majority of study respondents did not receive training in transportation of infectious substances (70.9%). Knowledge and practice on transportation of infectious substances among health care providers are low. More efforts are needed to fill the gap in knowledge and practice by applying effective training programs that can lead to increase skills and awareness of health care providers.
Highlights
Considerable attention has been paid to biosafety, biosecurity and quality management system (QMS) issues [1,2,3]
In addition; proper transportation practice play a vital role in surveillance system and emergency public health events assessment based on international health regulations (IHR) [4, 5]
Universal Journal of Public Health 7(2): 45-51, 2019 of them were belonged to private institutions. 112 study respondents (54.4.2%) were postgraduates, 73 (53.4%) were graduates, 16 (7.8%) of respondent with diploma (2-3 years) and 5 (2.4%) of respondents have general education
Summary
Considerable attention has been paid to biosafety, biosecurity and quality management system (QMS) issues [1,2,3]. Regulations of transportation process include categorization of infectious substance into: 1) category A, 2) category B and 3) exempt Transportation of these infectious substance require special type of packaging provide three layers of containment termed “triple packaging” derived from risk assessment and required specific marking and labeling [6]. In 2015 the United Nation (UN) adopted the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs), a set of targets for 2030 to mobilize action on three interwoven dimensions of our existence—people, planet, and prosperity [10]. Matching these goals, in SDG 3 and SDG 11 are devoted to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all age; and for make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable respectively. SDG 14 dedicated to conserve and sustainable use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development [11] it can terminate that
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