Knowledge, Attitude And Practices Regarding Management Of Biomedical Waste Among House Officer And Nursing Staff In Teaching Hospitals Of District South, Karachi

Objective: To determine the knowledge, attitude and practices regarding management of biomedical waste among the house officers and nursing staff in teaching hospitals of District South, Karachi. Methods: A cross sectional knowledge, attitude and practice survey was conducted from November 2018 to April 2019 among the house officer and the nursing staff working at different teaching hospitals of District South, Karachi. A total of 196 house officers and staff nurses were included in the study after checking their eligibility. The participants were interviewed by the principal investigator with the help of a structure questionnaire develop specifically for this study. Data were entered and analyzed on SPSS version 20. Inferential analysis was performed using Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis H test whereas the significance level was set at 0.05. Results: The study results revealed that among demographic variables categories of age and profession had significantly different mean knowledge rank (p<0.001 and p=0.015 respectively), categories of profession and monthly income had significantly different mean attitude rank (p=0.009 and p=0.029 respectively) whereas none of the demographic variables were significantly associated with practice of the participants. Conclusion: It can be concluded that the knowledge, attitude and practices of the participants were mostly satisfactory. Moreover, few of the demographic characteristics were significantly associated with the knowledge and attitude of the participants, but not with their practices.