Evaluation of the knowledge toward communicable diseases prevention among health workers at In Al-Sadr Medical City in Najaf Governorate\ Iraq

Abstract

Communicable diseases represent a severe burden on human life, so control and prevention are essential to maintaining the sustainability of life. Health workers are the first line of defense against these diseases. Poor knowledge and wrong attitudes of health workers can negatively affect efforts to combat infection.The study aims to evaluate the knowledge levels among health workers toward communicable diseases. Also, determine the relationship between dependent and independent variables with participants' levels of knowledge. A cross-sectional analytical study in Al-Sadr Medical City, Najaf Governorate, from mid-November 2021 to the end of June 2022. On 384 health workers who were using a randomly collected self-questionnaire, the data was collected and analyzed using a statistical program. The main results indicate that (66.1%) of the participants are females, the majority of the age group (20-26) years, half of them are married and hold a bachelor's degree, (66.4%) have less than five years of experience, and (35.9%) receive a training course, In terms of profession, (27.3)% were nurses. The results show that (57.2%) had good overall knowledge. it was found that there is a significant relationship between knowledge and training sessions, as for other socio-demographic characteristics, there is no significant association with both knowledge.

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“…Table 4 shows the health personnel with different educational levels, such as 54.6% with a bachelor's degree, 33.6% with a diploma, 4.1% with a high school education, and 7.8% with a post-graduate degree. These findings were in line with those of another study carried out in Najaf City, which revealed that the majority of contributors (50%) had bachelor's degrees, while the lowest percentage (4.7%) belonged to participants with only a high school education (Alshamarti et al, 2022).…”

“…This finding was in agreement with another study conducted in Najaf, which determined that the majority of contributors (66.4%) had prior experience of less than five years. (Alshamarti et al, 2022). The interpretation of the brief years of experience of health workers may be influenced by the fact that a significant number of youthful employees are employed, as well as the fact that a significant number of graduates from medical and health group colleges entered the workforce in the final year of 2023, primarily in hospitals.…”