Survey of knowledge and attitude on standard prevention of healthcare workers in the prevention of COVID-19 at Da Nang Hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Standard precautions (SP) are bacteriological controls applicable to all patients regardless of diagnosis and time of care, making an important contribution to reducing the risk of infection and morbidity. institute. Therefore, it is very necessary to understand the current status of knowledge and attitude about SP of medical staff. Objectives: To describe the status of knowledge and attitudes towards standard prevention and to learn some factors related to standard knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers in the prevention of Covid-19 at Da Nang Hospital. Methodology: A cross-sectional description of 424 healthcare workers at Da Nang Hospital. Results: 94.3% of healthcare workers with standard prevention knowledge, and 5.7% of healthcare workers still have not. Most healthcare workers have a positive attitude about standard prevention (90.6%), and only 9.4% of healthcare workers have a negative attitude about standard prevention. There was a relationship between occupation, professional qualifications, year of seniority, and correct knowledge of standard precautions. The difference was statistically significant with p < 0.05. Conclusion: The percentage of health workers with the correct knowledge and positive attitudes about standard prevention is quite high. The group of doctors has corrected knowledge about standard prevention higher than the group of nurses, technicians, midwives, and other staff, significant with p < 0.05. Research subjects with a university degree or higher or working experience of fewer than 5 years have higher knowledge of standard prevention than the other group of subjects and have statistical significance with p < 0.05. Key words: standard precautions, healthcare workers