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.

<abstract><sec> <title>Background</title> <p>Fall is the most common patient safety incident in health care organizations. This study was initiated to obtain information regarding knowledge &amp; attitude on falls and awareness of fall risk factors among nurses to device evidence-based and multidisciplinary educational and training programs to improve patient safety and thereby reduce morbidity and mortality associated with falls.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Methods</title> <p>A descriptive cross-sectional survey study was conducted among 339 registered nurses working in Tertiary care hospitals across Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. A modified version of the previously validated standard questionnaire was administered by the investigators through an online survey method to explore the level of knowledge &amp; attitude on falls and awareness of inpatient fall risk factors among Nurses.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Results</title> <p>In this study, 15.6% of participants had adequate knowledge of falls, 57.2% had a favorable attitude towards falls and 38.3% had adequate awareness of fall risk factors. Years of experience in nursing has a statistically significant association with the level of knowledge on fall. The participant's attitude towards falls had a statistically significant relationship with age, education, experience in nursing, and previous patient fall experience. The correlation between fall knowledge, the attitude toward falls, and awareness of fall risk factors were highly significant. The majority of the participants expressed their favorable attitude toward the need for fall preventive education.</p> </sec><sec> <title>Conclusion</title> <p>In our study, it is evident that there is a void that has to be filled to improve the knowledge, attitude, and awareness of falls and their risk factors. There is a need for extensive education and holistic, multifactorial, and interdisciplinary training program to be undertaken through various health care organizations.</p> </sec></abstract>

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.

Back ground: Fall is the most common patient safety incident in health care organization. This study was initiated to obtain information regarding knowledge & attitude on fall and awareness of fall risk factors among nurses to device evidence based and multidisciplinary educational and training programme to improve patient safety and thereby reducing morbidity and mortality associated with fall. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional survey study was conducted among 339 registered nurses working in Tertiary care hospitals across Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Modified version of previously validated standard questionnaire was administered by the investigators through online survey method to explore the level of knowledge &attitude on fall and awareness of inpatient fall risk factors among Nurses. Results: In this study, 15.6% of participants had adequate knowledge on fall, 57.2% had favorable attitude towards fall and 38.3% adequate awareness on fall risk factors. Years of experience in nursing has statistical significant association with level of knowledge on fall. The participant’s attitude towards fall had statistical significant relationship with age, education, experience in nursing and previous patient fall experience. The correlation between fall knowledge, attitude of fall and awareness of fall risk factors were highly significant. Majority of the participants expressed their favorable attitude towards need for fall preventive education. Conclusion: In our study, it is evident that there is a void which has to be filled to improve the knowledge, attitude and awareness on fall and its risk factors .There is a need for extensive education and holistic, multifactorial and interdisciplinary training program to be undertaken through various health care organizations.

Background: COVID-19, the unprecedented deadly pandemic has turned the world topsy-turvy. It has affected all the people like poor and rich, young and old, educated and uneducated, male and female with detrimental consequences. People who are in quarantine and/or lockdown are likely to develop a wide range of symptoms like psychological stress, irritability, anxiety, depression etc. Hence, this study was undertaken to assess the psychological effects of COVID-19 lockdown among adult population residing in Chennai, India. This study is a cross sectional descriptive study carried out in Chennai, India. A structured questionnaire was developed containing 25 questions related to the emotional disturbance, depression, self-concept, physical problems, cognitive changes and role performance and 7 questions related to the demographics. An online survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire using a non-probability snowball sampling technique. A total of 579 responses were received. The findings of the present study revealed that, among 579 respondents, more than half of the respondents 320(56.3%)were under severe psychological stress, 192(33.2%) respondents that is one third of the people had moderate psychological stress and remaining were having mild psychological stress. The study also revealed that there was a statistically significant association of psychological problems associated with demographic variables. Our Study revealed that people living in Chennai had severe psychological problem due to theCOVID-19 lockdown. This highlights the importance and immediate need for the development special intervention programmes for the people with psychological problems due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

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.