Parajuli Janaki, Mishra Pradip, Sharma Seema, Bohora Krishna Bahadur, Rathour Pratiksha Singh, Joshi Jagadish, Kamar Sher Bahadur, Pandey Hemaraj, Chaudhary Ashok
Dhangadhi Submetropolitan, Dhangadhi, Nepal.
Seti Provincial Hospital, Sudurpaschim Province, Nepal.
J Nepal Health Res Counc. 2020 Nov 14;18(3):466-471. doi: 10.33314/jnhrc.v18i3.2816.
Health care workers are at greater risk of infection during COVID 19 pandemic. This study was carried out to assess the knowledge and attitude toward COVID-19 among healthcare workers at working at Seti Zonal Hospital.
A cross-sectional study was performed between April and May 2020 at Seti Zonal Hospital with purposive sampling technique and self-administered questionnaire of the knowledge and attitude of healthcare workers regarding COVID-19. The demographic characteristics mean knowledge and attitude score of healthcare workers were identified and inferential statistics t-test, ANOVA and Spearman's correlation were used to show the relationship between variables.
A total of 230 healthcare workers (92% response rate) had a mean score of knowledge and attitude of 8±0.88 and 7.88±1.32, respectively with good knowledge and a low positive attitude. Majority (94.7%) were familiar with the sign and symptoms, agreed that chronic diseases patients and HCWs are at a higher risk (97%) and (87.8%) respectively while knowledge related to COVID 19 vaccination, isolation period and treatment by antibiotics was poor with low positive attitude towards information availability about COVID 19 (41%), government ability to control the epidemic (49%), and the family members might get infection (60%). There was a positive correlation between knowledge scores and attitude scores (r=0.28, p<0.0001).
We identified a significant gap in information source, sufficient knowledge and low positive attitude about COVID 19 among health care workers. Greater educational efforts about prevention should be directed to different level of health workers.
在新冠疫情期间，医护人员面临更高的感染风险。本研究旨在评估塞蒂地区医院医护人员对新冠病毒的认知和态度。
2020年4月至5月，在塞蒂地区医院采用目的抽样技术，对医护人员进行了一项关于新冠病毒知识和态度的横断面研究，采用自填式问卷。确定了医护人员的人口统计学特征、平均知识和态度得分，并使用推断统计t检验、方差分析和Spearman相关性分析来显示变量之间的关系。
共有230名医护人员（回复率92%），知识和态度的平均得分分别为8±0.88和7.88±1.32，知识掌握良好但积极态度较低。大多数人（94.7%）熟悉症状和体征，分别有97%和87.8%的人认为慢性病患者和医护人员感染风险更高，而关于新冠疫苗接种、隔离期和抗生素治疗的知识较差，对新冠信息获取（41%）、政府控制疫情能力（49%）以及家庭成员可能感染（60%）的积极态度较低。知识得分与态度得分之间存在正相关（r=0.28，p<0.0001）。
我们发现医护人员在新冠病毒信息来源、足够知识和积极态度方面存在显著差距。应针对不同层级的卫生工作者加大预防方面的教育力度。
