Addressing the Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections in India

Balusu, Chinmayi

doi:10.3998/ujph.2307

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“…Overall, HCAI's constitute a severe threat to the Indian Healthcare system since they raise prices, degrade the standard of care provided, and adversely affect patient outcomes in a number of ways. 12 A face-to-face survey was conducted to evaluate environmental service workers' (ESWs) knowledge, attitudes, and practises on common cleaning and disinfection at three tertiary hospitals in China. Among the 115 participants, 89.1% agreed that environmental cleaning may help to keep patients safe, and 48.8% said they were extremely willing to improve cleaning procedures.…”

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Effectiveness of awareness video on knowledge, attitude and practice regarding infection control measures among housekeeping employees in teritary care hospital at Puducherry

Lavanya¹,

Kripa²,

Prabavathy³

2023

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Introduction: The prevalence of Hospital acquired infections (HAI) varies widely across the globe. Worldwide, it is estimated that almost 10% of the hospitalized patients acquire at least one HAI. House keeping employees are at high risk of being infected and also, they serves as a tool of spreading infection and also most of them lack in knowledge and practice of infection control measures. Hence a study was planned to evaluate the effectiveness of awareness vedio on infection control measures among house keeping employees at selected hospital, Puducherry.. Methodology: Sixty samples who fit into the inclusion criteria were selected by Simple random Sampling technique. 30 minutes of Awareness video on infection control practices shown to house keeping employees followed by assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice and the differences were noted. The effectiveness of statistically tested by paired t test Result: In evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practice the improvement score was statistically tested by paired t- test which was found to be highly statistically significant at p

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confidence: 99%