Knowledge and Behavior analysis of Healthcare worker's Hand Hygiene-In the Era of COVID-19 At A Level 3 Centre.

Background: Health-care-associated infection (HCAI) is one of the most important and pervasive problems in the medical field. When the healthcare system first began, maintaining clean hands was thought to play a critical part in reducing hospital acquired illnesses. It has become more important for healthcare professionals to practice good hand hygiene at the outset of the Covid pandemic. Methods: - A cross-sectional observational research conducted at Teerthanker Mahaveer Medical College & Research Center Hospital in Moradabad by using a convenience sequential sampling method 360 professionals were enrolled then divided into 3 groups for comparison and assess knowledge, attitude, practices (behavior) the WHO knowledge questionnaire, attitude and self-perceived practices via Likert scale. Results: Of the 360 participants were involved in the study, we found that majority (doctors-60.4%, nurses-70.8%, ward staff-74.8%) had received knowledge on hand hygiene in last three years but the overall most participants had positive attitude of the respondents towards hand hygiene and more than 70 % of participants considered it as an essential part of their role during practice but still practices lagged situationally. Conclusion: We concluded that there is lacunae in training leading to differences in attitude and practices when compared to knowledge of the health care worker even after a pandemic. Laying importance on the training of staff of all strata. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]