Abstract
Introduction: Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a protective gear designed to safeguard the health of workers by minimizing the exposure to a biological agent. PPE usage is a primary strategy to prevent disease transmission in health-care settings where health-care professionals directly come in contact with infected patients. Kang et al. discovered that health-care personnel contaminated themselves in almost 80% of the PPE simulations.Aims: This study was done aiming to assess the knowledge, attitude, and reported practice, and identify the associated factors regarding donning and dofng of PPE among frontline healthcare workers in our institution. Materials and method: This was a single center observational, Cross sectional study from tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India from duration of study: May 2021 – January – 2022. Personal protective equipment was used among the doctor and nurse against covid-19 in our hospital. Doctor and Nurse and Personal protective equipment among the doctor and nurse against covid-19 in our hospital. Result: 47(94.0%) doctors had corrected response and 3(6.0%) doctors had incorrected response about donning and dofng of PPE for frontline healthcare workers. 47(94.0%) nurses had corrected response and 3(6.0%) nurse had incorrected response about donning and dofng of PPE for frontline healthcare workers. This association was not statistically signicant (P=1.0000). 33(66.0%) doctors had corrected response and 17(34.0%) doctors had incorrected response to the following components based on their sequence of appearance during donning of PPE. 12(24.0%)nurse had corrected response and 38(76.0%) nurses had incorrected response to the following components based on their sequence of appearance during donning of PPE. This association was statistically signicant (P<0.0001). Conclusion: This study demonstrated an overall good knowledge, attitude, and reported practice regarding donning and dofng of PPE among frontline doctors and nurse However, the reported shortcomings like poor knowledge regarding the sequence of donning and dofng.
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