ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Yohannes T*, Kassa G, Laelago T and Guracha E
Background: Infections in health care facilities have become a major health problem, especially in the health institutions located in developing countries. The objective of this study was assessing health-care workers’ compliance with Infection prevention guidelines and factors that influence compliance in Hospitals of Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia, 2017. Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted from May to June 2017. To draw a total sample of size 279 simple random sampling technique was used. Data were entered using Epi-Data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 20 for analysis. Binary logistic regression analysis was used to see significance of association between the outcome and independent variables. Odds ratios at 95% CI were computed to measure the strength of the association between the outcome and the explanatory variables. P-value ˂0.05 was considered as a statistically significant. Results: The findings of this study showed that the overall compliance of health care workers with infection prevention guidelines was 15.0% (95%CI: 11.0%, 19.0%). Being female (AOR: 2.962, 95%CI: (1.342, 6.535)), positive attitude towards IP guidelines (AOR: 3.130, 95%CI: (1.192, 8.224)), access to IP guidelines (AOR: 2.820, 95%CI: (1.076, 7.389)), training on IP guidelines (AOR: 2.262, 95%CI: (1.008, 5.078)) were significantly associated with compliance with IP guidelines. Conclusion: In this study the overall compliance level of the health care workers to infection prevention guide lines was very low. Being female, attitude towards infection prevention guidelines, accessibility of personal protective equipment’s and training were factors significantly associated with compliance with infection prevention guidelines.Continuous training on infection prevention guidelines should be given to health care workers, especially for males. Accessibility of infection prevention materials and equipments in the hospitals should get due attention.
Keywords: Compliance; Health care workers; Infection Prevention; Ethiopia
