Knowledge attitude and practice study on biomedical waste management among health care professionals and paramedical students in a Tertiary Care Government Hospital in South India

Sengodan, Vetrivel Chezian; Amruth, KH

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“…7,10,11 This could be due to differences in the study settings, differences in job profile and experience of the participants, differences in data collection tools used etc. Majority of the nurses in our study were unaware about the hazards associated with biomedical waste which conform to the findings by Sengodan et al and Sharma et al 4,10 Similarly, majority of the nurses and lab technicians were not knowing the exact number of colour coded containers utilized for biomedical waste management which is similar to the findings by Patil et al and Rajput et al 7,12 More doctors were having positive attitude towards biomedical waste management compared to others in our study similar to the findings of few other studies. 3,13 Contrary to the findings of our study, the number of nurses and lab technicians having positive attitude towards biomedical waste management was more than resident doctors in a study done by Ajai et al in Tirupati and also, more doctors than nurses and lab technicians considered it as an extra burden in a study by Malini et al 6,11 The study also revealed that few of the nursing staff and the lab technicians were not aware about the reporting of needle stick injury similar to the findings of other studies.…”

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“…The problem is further aggravated due to the marked increase in disposable health-care materials. 4 It is estimated that about 80-85% of waste produced in health care settings is non-infectious general waste, 10% is infectious and the remaining 5% is other hazardous waste. However, if the infectious component gets mixed with the general non-infectious waste, the entire bulk of hospital waste may become infectious.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practices on biomedical waste and its management among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal, Karnataka, India

Mane

Nimbannavar

Yuvaraj

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: Biomedical waste carries a higher potential for infection and injury than any other type of waste. Inadequate and inappropriate handling of such waste may have serious public health consequences and a significant impact on the environment. Health care workers are the key workers in the management of biomedical waste and their inadequate knowledge, unfavorable attitude and poor practices are dangerous for their own health and those in the society. The objective of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices on biomedical waste and its management among health care workers in the study setting. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 162 health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal district of Karnataka state. Data was collected using a pretested and semi structured questionnaire after taking an informed consent and analysed using WHO Epi info software. Results: The present study found out that the health care workers had satisfactory level of knowledge, favorable attitude and better practices towards biomedical waste management. However, their practices were not in proportion to the level of their knowledge and attitude. Conclusions: Regular training, continuous monitoring and behaviour change communication are recommended to improve their biomedical waste handling practices.

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Knowledge, attitude and practices on biomedical waste and its management among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal, Karnataka, India

Mane

Nimbannavar

Yuvaraj

2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…[10,11] A self-designed pretested questionnaire [Annexure 1] as in all other studies done in this contemporary time, was used. [5,[12][13][14] We critically felt that a universal tool should be developed for assessment to establish uniformity. Participation in the survey was purely voluntary and anonymous.…”

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“…[9] Although numerous studies on the knowledge, attitude, a n d p r a c t i c e s ( K A P ) o f B M W r u l e s , 1 9 9 8 , e x i s t , s t u d i e s o n B M W M R u l e s , 2 0 1 6 , a n d BMWM (Amendment) Rules, 2018, are scarce. [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Just teaching about the rules without assessing the depth of understanding has led to a lot of mishaps related to biomedical waste. This study was done to test the KAP of BMWM (Principle) Rule, 2016, and BMWM (Amendment) Rule, 2018, and Solid Waste (SW) rules, 2016, among health-care workers (HCWs) in a tertiary care setup.…”

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Knowledge, attitude, and practices of Bio-medical Waste Management rules, 2016; Bio-medical Waste Management (amendment) rules, 2018; and Solid Waste Rules, 2016, among health-care workers in a tertiary care setup

2019

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INTRODUCTION: Biomedical waste poses physical, chemical, radiological, and microbiological risks to the public and health-care workers (HCWs) for current and future generations. AIM: The aim was to gauge the depth of understanding amongst HCWs on biomedical waste management (BMWM). MATERIALS AND METHODS: A predesigned questionnaire on knowledge, attitude, and practices on BMWM Rules, 2016 (Principle), and 2018 (Amendment), Solid Waste Rules, 2016, and health hazards in HCW was distributed to all participants. RESULTS: Only 68% of the participants knew that the most important step in waste management is waste segregation. Eighty-two percent of the HCWs working in this setup knew of the different color-coded bins used for segregation. However, awareness was lacking with respect to health hazards associated with improperly segregated and disposed off biomedical waste as only 49% answered the questions on the hazards of waste correctly. Laboratory waste handling was found to be the least understood area of the newer guidelines. CONCLUSIONS: Training aspects of health-care waste management should be strengthened so that the current, existing, and future regulations are practiced diligently and uniformly. Periodic evaluation and assessment should become routine to enforce adherence to waste management.

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“…(Table 2) In the study done by SengodanVC et al involving doctors and nurses, mean score for KAP were 7.74, 7.67 and 6.58 respectively. 11 Lower KAP values in our study could be due to the inclusion of sanitary staffs, the group which was not included in Sengodan VC et al study. Overall mean values of KAP has been affected by the lower scores of sanitary staffs in our study.…”

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A study on knowledge, attitude and practice of biomedical waste management among health care workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Puducherry

Sekar¹,

Swapna²,

Easow³

2020

IJMR

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Introduction: Health care workers (HCWs) are constantly associated with generation, segregation and disposal of biomedical wastes (BMW). Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of BMW management among HCWs are the three determinants used to evaluate the effective functioning of BMW management system of the Institution. Aims: This study aims to detect the degree of knowledge, attitude and practice of BMW management among HCWs in a tertiary care hospital. Materials and Methods:This study included 150 HCWs from five groups (postgraduates, interns, nurses, technicians and sanitary staffs), each group comprising of 30 individuals. They were instructed to tick their response in the questionnaire containing 30 questions (10 questions about each parameter) and were graded as good, average and poor based on individual score. Results: Order of decreasing knowledge and practice seen among the five groups was postgraduates followed by laboratory technicians, interns, nurses and sanitary staffs. Decreasing order of attitude was postgraduates, interns and laboratory technicians with same score, followed by nurses and sanitary staffs. In our study, 81.33%, 86.7% and 69.33% of participants had above average KAP values respectively. Conclusion: Postgraduates and interns had better understanding of BMW management than other groups. Laboratory technicians were better than nurses and sanitary staffs. Sanitary workers were highly ignorant regarding BMW management. So a continuing medical education program on BMW management should be conducted on yearly basis to train and update newly appointed as well as existing HCWs.

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Knowledge attitude and practice study on biomedical waste management among health care professionals and paramedical students in a Tertiary Care Government Hospital in South India

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Knowledge, attitude and practices on biomedical waste and its management among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal, Karnataka, India

Knowledge, attitude and practices on biomedical waste and its management among health care workers at a tertiary care hospital in Koppal, Karnataka, India

Knowledge, attitude, and practices of Bio-medical Waste Management rules, 2016; Bio-medical Waste Management (amendment) rules, 2018; and Solid Waste Rules, 2016, among health-care workers in a tertiary care setup

A study on knowledge, attitude and practice of biomedical waste management among health care workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Puducherry

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