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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice on Prevention of Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) among Health Care Professionals Working in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital
- Source :
- Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 335-345 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2021.
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Abstract
- Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is a common healthcare-related infection occurring in patients admitted for various ailments. Approximately 80% of hospital acquired Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are catheter associated. The purpose of the current research was to find out the level of knowledge, attitude and practice on prevention of CAUTI among healthcare professionals working in tertiary care hospital. A descriptive study was done among 95 health care working in tertiary care hospital in Chennai. The researchers administered standard questionnaire and statistically explored the knowledge, attitude, and practice levels about prevention of CAUTI among the participants. Among 95 participants, 28.4% and 71.6% of the individuals had moderately adequate knowledge and adequate knowledge about CAUTI. About 4.2% of the participants had unfavourable, 88.4% had moderately favourable and 7.4% had favourable attitude towards prevention of CAUTI. About 4.2% of the individuals had moderately adequate and 95.8% had adequate practice towards the prevention of CAUTI. There was significant correlation between attitude and practice. The professional experience of the participants showed statistically significant association with the level of practice among the demographic variables. In our present study, we found out that health care professionals had adequate knowledge, attitude, and practice on prevention of CAUTI. Medical education programs, frequent auditing with a checklist about catheter care must be conducted to maintain the achieved knowledge and practice levels.
- Subjects :
- knowledge
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
cauti
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Microbiology
Tertiary care
practice
QR1-502
Teaching hospital
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
prevention
attitude
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Health care
health care professionals
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
Biotechnology
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 2581690X and 09737510
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de04dd8bb2efc42625fde7a13111c3c3