THE IMPACT OF HAND HYGIENE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPLIANCE OF HEALTH WORKERS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Nida Faradisa Fauziyah

Volume : IX, Issue : XI, November - 2019

THE IMPACT OF HAND HYGIENE KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS COMPLIANCE OF HEALTH WORKERS IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Nida Faradisa Fauziyah

Abstract :

Background: Nosocomial infection is the main cause of mortality and morbidity by 22,4–52,4%. Hand hygiene compliance can reduce the development of nosocomial infection. A high level of knowledge and a good attitude will provide the advantage of hand hygiene implementation. An emergency situation can be considered as the critical condition of hand hygiene compliance. This research aims to analyze the influence of hand hygiene knowledge and attitude toward the hand hygiene compliance of health workers in the emergency department. Subject and method: The cross–sectional research method has been held in a private hospital. The sample is consists of nurses and doctors who work in the emergency department. The instrument of the research is a questionnaire, observational study, and interview. The data analysis used is Pearson correlational test. Result: health workers in the emergency department have an average knowledge of hand hygiene (73,44%), an average attitude of hand hygiene (64,6%) and low hand hygiene compliance (42%). There were almost nonexistent and statistically non–significant correlations between knowledge (p=0.703>0,05) and attitude (p=0.686>0,05) with hand hygiene compliance. Conclusion: there is no influence of hand hygiene knowledge and attitude toward hand hygiene compliance of health workers in the emergency department that caused by the inhibitor factors which are a crowded condition, emergency condition, and less of hand hygiene awareness from the health workers.