Preventive practice on communicable diseases transmission among the health workers of some selected tertiary level hospitals of Chattogram city, Bangladesh
1 Chattogram Medical College Hospital, Chattogram, Bangladesh.
2 Upazilla Health Complex, Bagha, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
3 Department of Public Health, Northern University Bangladesh.
Research Article
International Journal of Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences Archive, 2021, 01(02), 229–238.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijbpsa.2021.1.2.0042
Publication history:
Received on 23 April 2021; revised on 02 June 2021; accepted on 06 June 2021
Abstract:
This descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out to assess the preventive practice on communicable disease in two selected tertiary level hospital of Chittagong city with a sample size of 160. The study revealed that 70.6% of the respondents were in age groups 16-30 years with the mean age 28.92 + 4.834 years. Among the respondents 92.5% were female and rests of them 7.5% were male and most of them 90% were married and rests 10% were unmarried. It was found from the study that 78.1% had higher secondary, 20.6% had bachelor and rest of them had master level education. Among the respondents 81.9% were staff nurses and 7.5% were student nurses .All of the respondents 1.2%, 13.1%, 63.1% and 22.6% had income as BDT <10000, 10000-20000, 20001-30000 and > 30000 respectively. The study also revealed that 94.4% nurses used unsafe scissors, needle, syringes and 50% of the respondents washed hands, 28.1% used gloves, 6.9% used disposable syringe, 90.8% used sterile instruments and also 93.2% did proper disposal of waste materials respectively as preventive measure for disease spread. As infection prevention for communicable disease is important a general awareness were only the health worker should be educated by motivational and training program.
Keywords:
Preventive practice; Communicable diseases; Transmission; Health workers; Tertiary level hospitals; Chattogram city
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