Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID-19 among doctors and nurses at a tertiary care maternity hospital in Nepal

Ansari, Shaheen Naaz; Ansari, Imran; Jha, Meena; Upreti, Rakshya

doi:10.3126/jpahs.v7i2.31103

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“…More than three fourth (76.5%) of the respondents strongly agreed that health care workers must update themselves about COVID-19, 57.4% strongly believed that WHO, CDC universal precautions could prevent COVID-19, 61.7% strongly agreed that information on COVID-19 should be disseminated among them, 60 % agreed active participation of health workers can reduce the prevalence of COVID-19, 42.6% strongly responded that intensive, emergency and symptomatic treatment should be given accordingly to COVID-19 patients and 78.3% of the respondents answered that PPE must be used when dealing with COVID-19 patients. These findings are in line with the results of similar research done at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal (Ansari et al, 2020) and Vietnam (Huynh et al, 2020) that showed the majority of the respondents had positive attitudes on COVID-19.…”

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Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on COVID-19 in a Government Hospital, Biratnagar

Katuwal

Bhandari

2022

Boudhik Abhiyan

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World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic on 11th March 2020 due to rapid transmission and severity of illness of this fatal virus from the country of origin. This study was conducted to assess the health care workers’ knowledge, attitude and practice on COVID -19 in a government hospital at Biratnagar. A descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used. Census method was adopted for sampling, structured questionnaire was used to collect data among 115 healthcare workers over a period of two months. More than three fourth (78.3%) scored good knowledge, almost all possessed a positive attitude and more than half (62.6%) had good infection prevention practice on COVID-19. However, 52.2% reported that COVID-19 is contagious and only 13.9% identified as a zoonotic disease. Also, it revealed that only 35.7% practiced correct steps of donning PPE, only 27.8% reported proper sequence of doffing PPE and 40.0% followed standard duration for hand washing as per the WHO, CDC guideline. The study highlighted the gap in some specific aspects of knowledge and practice of the healthcare workers that need immediate concern. Adequate provision of periodically updated educational training programmes on COVID-19 and infection prevention practices focusing on PPE might help bridging the gap.

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Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on COVID-19 in a Government Hospital, Biratnagar

Katuwal

Bhandari

2022

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“…Moreover, they also feared the transmission of disease in hospitals. Some studies showed an increase in 11,12 maternal mortality.…”

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Effect on mode of Child birth and its outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic at Ilam district hospital: A comparative descriptive cross-sectional study

Sah

Shrestha²,

Deo³

et al. 2022

Birat J. Health Sci.

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Introduction: Nepal started full lockdown from 24 March to 14 June 2020, followed by partial lockdowns multiple times as a precaution for the prevention of COVID-19 infection. Managing health care services was a major issue during the COVID-19 pandemic for both the patients and health care professionals including services targeting pregnant women in developing countries like Nepal. Objectives: To study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on childbirth services attended at a district government hospital and to observe the impact on mode of delivery and maternal-child health. Methodology: This descriptive cross-sectional study aimed to find out the impact on delivery services during the pandemic compared to pre-pandemic duration that includes one year period from 22nd October 2019 to 22nd March 2020 (before pandemic) and from 23rd March 2020 to 23rd September 2020 (pandemic duration) at Ilam District Hospital. All the information used in this research was taken from Health Management Information System (HMIS) logbook. The permission to use the recorded data was obtained from the hospital. Anonymity and confidentiality of data were maintained and no personal information was used in this research to protect the identity of the patients. The data was collected from the HMIS records of the hospital and was then processed in Microsoft excel. Results: The result shows despite the lockdown and pandemic the percentage of patients coming to receive delivery services within the hospital increased about 9% which is an exceptionally good result. Emergency CS was found to be decreased by 3%. During the pandemic Hospital stay was significantly reduced for patient’s safety due to COVID-19. However, no adverse impact was observed on the health outcomes of the mother and baby due to a short stay at the hospital. Conclusion: Despite lockdown and pandemic, the number of parents receiving hospital delivery services increased at Ilam hospital. This was possible due to proper management and pre-plan services according to the government’s COVID-19 protocol to cope with the pandemic and demand of the health services as other nearby hospitals closed their door during the pandemic. In the future, a short stay at the hospital can be continued to cope with a high demand of the services in the maternity department as we found the health of both mother and baby has not been impacted due to short stay in the hospital during the pandemic.

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Knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID-19 among doctors and nurses at a tertiary care maternity hospital in Nepal

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Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on COVID-19 in a Government Hospital, Biratnagar

Health Care Workers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on COVID-19 in a Government Hospital, Biratnagar

Effect on mode of Child birth and its outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic at Ilam district hospital: A comparative descriptive cross-sectional study

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