Vocational School of Health Services Students’ Knowledge Levels on Hand Hygiene
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Methods: The research was carried out in the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. A total of 384 volunteer students who were present at the school on the day of the study and agreed to participate in the study were included in the study. The data of the research was collected through a questionnaire consisting of a total of 36 questions that will determine the level of knowledge about the socio-demographic characteristics of the students and hand hygiene. Descriptive statistics for continuous variables while expressed as mean and standard deviation, it is expressed as number and percentage for categorical variables. Chi-square test was used to determine the relationship between categorical variables.
Results: 71.1% of the participants in the study were female and 28.9% were male students, and the average age of the students was 20.80 ± 2.165. 49.7% of them received hand hygiene training. 4.9% of the participants stated that they washed their hands 2-3 times a day, 32% 4-5 times, 41.7% 10 and above, 20.1% as needed. For hand hygiene, 73.7% stated that they used water-soap and 2.6% used hand sanitizer. 94% of the participants stated that hand hygiene reduced the rate of infection. 86.2% of the students stated that the number of washbasins in school is insufficient and 78.9% stated that there is no soap in the washbasins. In the application areas, 75% stated that there were no paper towels, 49.2% hand sanitizer, and 47.4% no gloves.
Conclusion: In the field of hand hygiene, standard rules prepared by national and international infection prevention and control organizations confirm that hand hygiene alone is the most important procedure in preventing infections. In study, it was determined that the students who are candidates to become health personnel in the future have sufficient information about hand hygiene, but the necessary material to provide hand hygiene in school and application areas is insufficient.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Canan Demir
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Türkiye
Halime Yıldız
0000-0002-0603-1815
Türkiye
Suzan Güven
0000-0002-8015-7870
Türkiye
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Nisan 2022
Gönderilme Tarihi
17 Şubat 2022
Kabul Tarihi
14 Nisan 2022
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2022 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1