Awareness and practices regarding biomedical waste management among housekeeping staff of a tertiary care hospital in Western India

H. Pandve, Shruti Gaikwad, Bhagyashri Bhure, Varsha Kadam, Jilu Justin
{"title":"Awareness and practices regarding biomedical waste management among housekeeping staff of a tertiary care hospital in Western India","authors":"H. Pandve, Shruti Gaikwad, Bhagyashri Bhure, Varsha Kadam, Jilu Justin","doi":"10.4103/ed.ed_15_22","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background: The World Health Organization biomedical waste guidelines of 2004 emphasizes the importance of the “human factor” over technology and equipment. Housekeeping staff members are directly involved in the collection, transport, and disposal of biomedical waste and are at high risk of acquiring infections. At the same time, they are usually unskilled, uneducated, and have little to no knowledge about the segregation and disposal of biomedical waste, which further compounds their health risk. Objective: To assess the awareness and practices regarding biomedical waste management in housekeeping staff of a tertiary care hospital. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 housekeeping staff members of a tertiary teaching hospital in Pune, Maharashtra, from February to April 2022. A semi-structured, pretested questionnaire was used for data collection. Knowledge of the study participants was scored on a scale of 0–10 and the median score of all the study participants was taken as a cutoff for determining good and poor knowledge. The data were entered into MS Excel 2010 and analyzed using IBM SPSS software 16-trial version. The Chi-square test was used as a test of significance. Results: In the present study, 73% of study participants had good knowledge regarding biomedical waste management. All the participants (100%) were following appropriate practices regarding biomedical waste management. Age and experience were found to be significantly associated with knowledge regarding biomedical waste management (P < 0.05). Conclusion: There is a gap in the knowledge regarding biomedical waste management among the study subjects which needs to be addressed through repeated and diligent training exercises.","PeriodicalId":11702,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Disease","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Disease","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4103/ed.ed_15_22","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1

Abstract

Background: The World Health Organization biomedical waste guidelines of 2004 emphasizes the importance of the “human factor” over technology and equipment. Housekeeping staff members are directly involved in the collection, transport, and disposal of biomedical waste and are at high risk of acquiring infections. At the same time, they are usually unskilled, uneducated, and have little to no knowledge about the segregation and disposal of biomedical waste, which further compounds their health risk. Objective: To assess the awareness and practices regarding biomedical waste management in housekeeping staff of a tertiary care hospital. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 housekeeping staff members of a tertiary teaching hospital in Pune, Maharashtra, from February to April 2022. A semi-structured, pretested questionnaire was used for data collection. Knowledge of the study participants was scored on a scale of 0–10 and the median score of all the study participants was taken as a cutoff for determining good and poor knowledge. The data were entered into MS Excel 2010 and analyzed using IBM SPSS software 16-trial version. The Chi-square test was used as a test of significance. Results: In the present study, 73% of study participants had good knowledge regarding biomedical waste management. All the participants (100%) were following appropriate practices regarding biomedical waste management. Age and experience were found to be significantly associated with knowledge regarding biomedical waste management (P < 0.05). Conclusion: There is a gap in the knowledge regarding biomedical waste management among the study subjects which needs to be addressed through repeated and diligent training exercises.
印度西部一家三级保健医院的家政人员对生物医学废物管理的认识和做法
背景:2004年世界卫生组织《生物医学废物准则》强调了"人为因素"对技术和设备的重要性。家政人员直接参与生物医学废物的收集、运输和处置,感染的风险很高。与此同时,他们通常没有技能,没有受过教育,对生物医学废物的分离和处置知之甚少,这进一步加剧了他们的健康风险。目的:了解某三级医院家政人员对生物医学废物管理的认识和做法。研究对象和方法:在2022年2月至4月期间,对马哈拉施特拉邦浦那一家三级教学医院的100名家政人员进行了横断面研究。采用半结构化、预测问卷进行数据收集。研究参与者的知识在0-10的范围内得分,所有研究参与者的中位数得分被作为确定知识好坏的截止点。数据录入MS Excel 2010,使用IBM SPSS软件16试用版进行分析。采用卡方检验作为显著性检验。结果:在本研究中,73%的研究参与者对生物医学废物管理有良好的了解。所有参与者(100%)都遵循了有关生物医学废物管理的适当做法。年龄和经验与生物医学废物管理知识显著相关(P < 0.05)。结论:研究对象在生物医学废物管理知识方面存在差距,需要通过反复和勤奋的培训来解决这一问题。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
自引率
0.00%
发文量
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信