Compliance with standard precaution of infection prevention practice and associated factors among health care workers in Ethiopia: Mixed method study.

ABSTRACT:

Backgrounds and aims

In developing countries, most infections can be prevented with relatively inexpensive infection prevention methods. However, there is limited information on standard precautions for infection prevention practices among health workers in Ethiopia Therefore, this study aimed to assess the compliance with the standard precaution of infection prevention practice and associated factors among health care workers (HCWs) using a mixed method study.

Methods

A hospital-based mixed-methods study design (concurrent mixed method design) was conducted among 378 randomly selected health professionals. Self-administered questionnaire; an in-depth interview and an observational checklist were used to collect the data. The collected data were cleaned and entered into Epi

SUBMITTER: Kassa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470010 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature