Compliance of Hand Hygiene Among Health Care Professionals and Allied Health Workers in the Prevention of Bacterial Contamination

• Raul I. Gambalan

  Faculty of Nursing, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya

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• Janette L. Calo

  Faculty of Nursing, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya

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• Jerlinda P. Roa

  Faculty of Nursing, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Libya

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• Salih A. S. Alsalimi

  Neurosurgery Department, Hawari General Hospital, Benghazi, Libya

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This study examined the compliance of hand hygiene in the operating theatre set-up on how to deter pathogenic microorganisms and prevent transmitting them. Poor hand hygiene practices are unacceptable and breaking the law of our infection control practices thus transmitting microorganisms to our clienteles and fellow health care practitioners. Respondents profile like gender, age, occupation, years of employment, level of respondents’ behaviour in performing proper hand hygiene, feedback on proper hand hygiene and fulfilment on health care supplies and facilities. Survey questionnaires were distributed and SPSS were utilized for the data analysis and fifty-five (55) participants joined the said research study. Each participant answered three (3) page questionnaires formulated by the researchers and confidentiality of their identity was strictly observed. Majority of respondents of this research study are nurses, mostly female, and with 4 to 6 years of experience as operating theatre staff. Feedback on proper hand hygiene were significant and respondents were “Fulfilled” to limited supplies and facilities they have.This study was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic to evaluate the adherence of our operating theatre staff to hand hygiene practices along with the supplemental of additional information and knowledge of disease prevention of transmission.

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