Assessment of Knowledge and Practices of Health Care Workers towards Infection Safety Precautions and Associated Factors in Health Care Facilities in the Makkah AL-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia2022

Abstract

Background

      The prevention of healthcare infection  safety precautions and associated factors in health care facilities the provision of safe, high quality healthcare. Infections acquired in healthcare facilities are a major public health concern, contributing to increased morbidity, mortality, and cost in both developed and developing countries. Although most of these infections can be avoided by infection safety precautions with relatively inexpensive infection and control measures in many developing countries, in Saudi Arabia healthcare facilities have no effective infection safety precautions . Additionally, there is limited information on healthcare worker infection safety precautions knowledge and practice in countries such as Saudi Arabia .

Aim of study: To Assessment of knowledge and practices of health care workers towards infection safety precautions and associated factors in health care facilities in the Makkah AL-Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia2022.

Methods: This cross sectional study included (200) health care professionals in Makkah City at Saudi Arabia 2023. (doctors, nurses, lab workers) from primary healthcare (PHC) centers an self-administrated questionnaire was constructed by the researcher and was used for data collection. Divided in to 3 parts  i.e., socio‑demographic characteristics, knowledge questions about infection  safety precautions and statements about practice of health care providers regarding infection  safety precautions and associated factors in health care facilities

Results: shows the majority of participant (55.0%) have average of the Knowledge about infection safety precautions , followed by (24.0%) of participant high  but weak were (21.0%) while Range(2-9 ) and Mean ±SD(7.12 ±1.99), while a significant relation were P-value=0.001 X² 63.78

Conclusion: Inadequate infection  safety precautions knowledge and unsafe practices were frequent among study participants, reflecting a potentially common problem at public healthcare facilities in Saudi Arabia. Healthcare workers have better knowledge and safer practices if they had received infection safety precautions training and had infection safety precautions guidelines in their workplace. Interventions should be designed to consider these identified factors