Abstract
Study aimed to assess the nurse's knowledge, attitude and practice regarding Hepatitis-B infection in Tertiary care public Hospital in Quetta Pakistan. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from February to October, 2016 in the Public and Private hospitals of Quetta city by using a self-administered questionnaire to investigate KAP among registered nurses. of which 384 were agreed to participate. Descriptive and inferential statistics was performed by using SPSS vs 20, Person correlation (p < 0.01) was used to assess the relationship among knowledge, attitude and Practice. The mean age was 27.66±9.13 year. Majority (n=191, 55.4%) were belong to age group 17-26 years with Job Experience of 1-3 years (n=198, 57.4%) working as Nurse (n=162, 47.0) in a Government Hospital (n=275, 79.7%). Overall the study participants had mean knowledge, attitude and practice score were (16.53 ± 2.08), (4.91 ± 1.14) and (6.83 ± 1.61) respectively.. There were significant positive linear correlations between knowledge-attitude (r=0.361, p<0.01) knowledge-practice (r=0.246, p<0.01) and attitude-practice (r=0.213, p<0.01) were observed. The Study conclude that the Nurses had Adequate knowledge, positive attitude but poor practices special with regards to needle prick injuries, it is important to know that this carelessness of the needle prink injury may lead to higher incidence and transmission of Hepatitis-B.
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