Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Personal Protective Equipment Utilization Among Health Care Workers at Adare Comprehensive Hospital, Ethiopia, 2017

Abstract

Background: Although healthcare personnel often face hazardous working conditions with potential exposures to a variety of toxic and infectious agents, adherence to PPE protocols is quite low. Proper utilization of PPE safeguards the health care providers especially nurses from hazardous working conditions and increase patient safety, the objective of a study is to assess knowledge, attitude and practice on using personal protective equipment and associated factors among health care providers in Adare general hospital. Objective: To determine the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice on personal protective equipment utilization and associated factors among health care providers. Methods: institutional based cross sectional study was conducted from September 10-12/2017 at Adare general hospital. Simple random sampling technique was used to select participants. Data was entered and analyzed by using SPSS and logistic regression analyses were computed and adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval was calculated to identify associated factors. Result: The prevalence of PPE utilization were 78.2%. Educational status, marital status, over rowdiness of department and good supply of PPE were significantly associated with KAP. Conclusion: the utilization of PPE at Adare hospital was low and the hospital should supply adequate PPE and organize trainings that can improve the utilization of PPE. Funding Statement: Not applicable. Declaration of Interests: No competing interest. Ethics Approval Statement: The title was approved by Hawassa college of health science ethical review committee, ethical clearance and official letter then obtained from Hawassa college of health sciences research and publications core process. Permission to conduct a study was also obtained from the Adare general hospital and written consent was obtained before data collection. Confidentiality of the individual respondent was ensured by using unique identifiers; the collected data was kept confidential and used for the study purpose only.