Background: Improper hand hygiene practices among Healthcare Providers (HCPs) are a common risk factor for and interventions to improve hygiene have proven to be effective strategy in reducing nosocomial infection. Hand hygiene has been described as the single most important, simplest and least expensive means of preventing nosocomial infections. Aim/Objectives: The studied was carried out to determine the knowledge, attitude and practice of hand hygiene among healthcare workers in a tertiary health facility. Materials/Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 368 doctors, nurses and ward attendants using multistage sampling technique. Data were collected with a set of self-administered, modifi ed WHO questionnaire and analyzed using IBM and SPSS version 25 statistical package. Results: The mean age of respondents was 35.2±9.3 years, and majority of them were between 36-45years (33.6%). The male to female ratio was 1.6: 1. Most of the respondents were nurses (41.5%) and 370 (98.95%) of the respondents had a good knowledge of hand hygiene. Washing of hands before and after contact with patients was 44.65% and 56.2% respectively. Most of them have received training on hand washing in the last three years (53.4%), 222 (62.7%) respondents routinely used alcohol based hand rub. The main reason cited for not observing hand hygiene practices consistently were lack of running water (53.4%), unavailability of alcohol based hand rub(26.6%), and dirty water sinks (24.0%). Conclusion: Although knowledge, attitude and practice of hand hygiene were good among respondents in this study, lack of running water and unavailability of alcohol based hand rub remain major constraints. Hospital management should therefore provide adequate water supply and materials for sanitation and hand hygiene in healthcare facilities.
There is a huge deficit in the proportion of voluntary non-remunerated blood donors (VNRD) in Nigeria as most of the donations are from paid donors. Young adults, most especially students from higher institutions, constitute the majority of blood donors worldwide. The aim of this study, therefore, is to determine the factors that are associated with blood donation between the students from the main campus and the college of medicine (COM) campus of a Nigerian University. This was a cross-sectional analytical study conducted among VNRD at the main and COM campuses of a Nigerian University. Pre-donation questionnaires were used to obtain data from the students. Data were analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) IBM version 25. All tests were two-sided, and statistical significance was considered to be at a probability value of p<0.05. A total of 203 students showed up for VNRD on the two campuses on two separate days. About 59% were from the COM campus, and the mean age of the donors was 22.2 (2.4) years. There was no significant difference in the mean age, gender distribution, haemoglobin concentration, and eligibility to donate between the two groups of donors. Only two donors tested positive for HCV and HBV and both were from the COM. This study did not find any difference in the factors that influence the pattern of voluntary blood donation between two groups of university students who study medical-related courses and those that are not.
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