Background Despite the fact that cervical cancer is preventable and curable in the early stages, it still remains to be a major public health problem in India. This study was conducted to assess the knowledge and awareness regarding the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination among health care professionals working in a tertiary care hospital in urban India. Methods To this aim, we conducted a cross-sectional study among 318 health care professionals working in tertiary hospitals across Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Our research group designed a structured questionnaire with 31 items to assess the knowledge and attitudes on cervical cancer, its prevention, and HPV vaccination. Results Among the 318 respondents, 90.6% were aware of cervical cancer, 83.3% were aware that PAP (Papanicolaou) smear test detects cervical cancer, and 86.2% of the respondents knew that HPV causes cervical cancer. 29.2% of the eligible respondents underwent the screening against cervical cancer, and 19.8% of the study participants were vaccinated for HPV. Only 34.9% know that the HPV vaccine could be given to boys. The most common reason for not being vaccinated against HPV was the lack of awareness. In our study, 77.2% of the respondents were willing to be vaccinated and recommend HPV vaccination to their family members. Conclusion From this study, it was evident that there is a lack of awareness about HPV vaccination and its importance in preventing cervical cancer among healthcare professionals. Our finding clearly establishes the need to devise intervention programs to promote vaccination against HPV and periodical screening for cervical cancer among healthcare professionals.
Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is a common healthcare-related infection occurring in patients admitted for various ailments. Approximately 80% of hospital acquired Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are catheter associated. The purpose of the current research was to find out the level of knowledge, attitude and practice on prevention of CAUTI among healthcare professionals working in tertiary care hospital. A descriptive study was done among 95 health care working in tertiary care hospital in Chennai. The researchers administered standard questionnaire and statistically explored the knowledge, attitude, and practice levels about prevention of CAUTI among the participants. Among 95 participants, 28.4% and 71.6% of the individuals had moderately adequate knowledge and adequate knowledge about CAUTI. About 4.2% of the participants had unfavourable, 88.4% had moderately favourable and 7.4% had favourable attitude towards prevention of CAUTI. About 4.2% of the individuals had moderately adequate and 95.8% had adequate practice towards the prevention of CAUTI. There was significant correlation between attitude and practice. The professional experience of the participants showed statistically significant association with the level of practice among the demographic variables. In our present study, we found out that health care professionals had adequate knowledge, attitude, and practice on prevention of CAUTI. Medical education programs, frequent auditing with a checklist about catheter care must be conducted to maintain the achieved knowledge and practice levels.
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a major cause of concern for the healthcare profession. The pandemic is on-going and actively developing and countries around the world are taking drastic measures to reduce the spread of disease by measures like initiating social distancing, closing of schools and nonessential businesses. The present study is being conducted to assess the knowledge of COVID-19 among the nursing and allied health care professionals. A cross sectional study on knowledge of COVID-19 was conducted among nursing and allied health care professionals working in tertiary care hospital. A structured questionnaire comprised of 25 questions developed by investigators was administered to 177 health care professionals that includes nursing and allied health professionals working in a tertiary care hospital. Among the 177 nursing and allied health care professionals, majority 92.1% of them has adequate knowledge regarding the present global pandemic and 7.9% had moderate knowledge. This study concludes that nursing and allied health care services professionals in tertiary centre has adequate knowledge regarding COVID-19 pandemic.
Hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) are infections which are absent at the time of admission and would have been acquired after hospitalization. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the knowledge and perception levels on preventing HAI among health care professionals in tertiary care setup. The semi-structured tool was used for data collection. Out of 367 health care professionals, 262 participants were included in the study. Data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. The mean level of knowledge and perception score on HAI was 19.58 ± 2.70 and 51.97 ± 5.62. There was a positive correlation among the level of knowledge with level of perception on the prevention of HAI (r=0.16) at p>0.01. The knowledge and perception level was significantly associated with few demographic variables such as following protocols of hand hygiene,trainings on HAI within last year and functioning infection control department in their institution at p = 0.001. Health care professionals have adequate knowledge and perception regarding the prevention of HAI. There should be emphasized refreshment and updates on the current trends on the prevention of HAI among the health care professionals through intensive education and conducting training courses.
Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among females in India. This study was conducted regarding current awareness about cervical cancer, which is helpful in designing educational programs and to overcome barriers associated for knowledge enhancement about cervical cancer and its screening & vaccination. Methods : This is a cross-sectional study conducted among 318 health care professionals working in tertiary hospitals across Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. A semi-structured questionnaire with 31 items was developed by the researchers to explore the knowledge and attitudes on cervical cancer, cervical cancer prevention and HPV(Human Papilloma Virus)vaccination. Results: Among the 318 respondents, 90.6% were aware of cervical cancer, but only 29.2% had done screening against cervical cancer and 19.8% got vaccinated. 94.7% of the study subjects heard of HPV and 86.2% knew that HPV causes cervical cancer. 83.3% people knew that PAP( Papanicolaou) smear test detects the cervical cancer. But, only 29.2% had PAP test. 68.2% of the study subjects knew that cancer cervix can be prevented by vaccination. But only 19.8% got vaccinated .Only 34.9% know that HPV vaccine can be given to boys. Most common reason for not getting vaccination was lack of awareness. 77.2% in our study are willing for vaccination and recommendation to their friends and family members. Conclusion: Lack of awareness with regard to the cervical cancer could be the possible hurdle for the HPV vaccination among the health professionals.
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