Knowledge and awareness on hand washing technique and hand hygiene on health care providers

Abstract

Hand washing is an effective way to avoid the spread of infections. The good hand hygiene involves cleaning the hands in between patients or between examining an infected site and clean body site. The aim of the study is to find out Whether the health care providers are knowledgeable about hand washing techniques and aware of the healthcare-associated diseases. A cross-sectional survey-based study was conducted among 202 health care providers Through the online survey website, Google forms. About 14 questions have been distributed among the health care providers. The results were analysed by SPSS software. The 65.35% of the healthcare providers were aware about the hand hygiene practices, whereas 34.65% were not aware. 57.92% of the healthcare providers were aware of the materials used in hand washing techniques. The Pearson chi-square analysis showed that males are more aware than females on the hand hygiene practices among healthcare providers. This study concludes that the awareness and knowledge of the healthcare providers on the hand washing techniques and hand hygiene are slightly moderate.