Knowledge Level of Health Workers on Hand Hygiene, Aseptic Techniques, Isolation and Quarantine Services in Selected Health Facilities in Kiambu County, Kenya
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2022-11
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International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health
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Background: The objective of this article was to ascertain the knowledge level of health workers on hand hygiene,
aseptic techniques, isolation and quarantine services in selected health facilities in Kiambu County.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was adopted in Kiambu County and Thika Sub-County was
purposively selected. Stratified random sampling was used to draw a sample size of 261 study respondents. Both
descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data.
Results: Out of the 261 questionnaires administered, only 178 were accurately, appropriately filled and returned. Chi
square was used to test the association between independent and dependent variables at 95% confidence interval. A p
value of less than 0.05 (p<0.05) was considered statistically significant. The general knowledge of health workers on
IPC was satisfactory with 135 (75.8%) having good knowledge. Knowledge was established to have statistically
significant association with nosocomial prevalence (χ2 =49.45, df =2, p<0.001).
Conclusions: It was concluded that majority of health workers had good knowledge on hand hygiene and aseptic
techniques but in the contrary this was not the case with isolation and quarantine services. This could have been
attributed to the fact that there were almost no trainings carried out on isolation and quarantine services and
furthermore not all health facilities had the infrastructure for isolation and quarantine required to enforce those
services.
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Njuguna, J. W., Kimani, H., & King’ori, I. (2022). Knowledge level of health workers on hand hygiene, aseptic techniques, isolation and quarantine services in selected health facilities in Kiambu County, Kenya. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health, 9(11), 4009.