Knowledge and Practices of Health-Care Waste Management among Health Workers in Lassa Fever Treatment Facility in Southeast Nigeria

Knowledge and Practices of Health-Care Waste Management among Health Workers in Lassa Fever Treatment Facility in Southeast Nigeria

The threat of endemic, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases, especially the viral hemorrhagic fevers demands effective health-care waste management (HCWM) among health-care workers. The study was intended to assess the knowledge and practices of HCWM among the cleaning staff in a Lassa fever...

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Veröffentlicht in:Nigerian medical journal 2019-09, Vol.60 (5), p.257-261
Hauptverfasser: Onoh, Robinson Chukwudi, Adeke, Azuka Stephen, Umeokonkwo, Chukwuma David, Ekwedigwe, Kenneth Chinedu, Agboeze, Joseph, Ogah, Emeka Onwe
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Zusammenfassung:The threat of endemic, emerging, and reemerging infectious diseases, especially the viral hemorrhagic fevers demands effective health-care waste management (HCWM) among health-care workers. The study was intended to assess the knowledge and practices of HCWM among the cleaning staff in a Lassa fever (LF) treatment facility. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study of 234 cleaning staff of Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki recruited by systematic random sampling. Data collection was with semi-structured questionnaires. Knowledge and practices of respondents were assessed using cutoff score of 75%; score of 75% and above being interpreted as good and
ISSN:0300-1652
2229-774X
DOI:10.4103/nmj.NMJ_161_18