Training at morning shift meeting can improve awareness rate of healthcare-associated infection knowledge among health care workers / 中国感染控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of training at morning shift meeting in improving healthcare-associated infection(HAI) prevention and control among health care workers(HCWs) in newly established hospital departments.Methods On July 11-22, 2016, HAI management full-time personnel performed training for HCWs about HAI prevention and control at morning shift meeting of 8 newly established clinical departments and 1 laboratory, the questionnaire survey was conducted before, immediately after, and 3 months after training, training effectiveness was evaluated.Results A total of 239 HCWs were required to receive training, including 85 doctors (35.6％), 150 nurses (62.8％), and 4 technicians (1.7％).The knowledge of HAI prevention and control that most HCWs wanted to know was occupational exposure and occupational precaution(85.6％);most HCWs wanted to obtain knowledge of HAI through training in their respective department by HAI management full-time personnel(87.1％).Total awareness rates of HAI knowledge before, immediately after, and 3 months after training were 45.1％, 96.7％, and 83.9％ respectively, difference was significant(P<0.001);comparison among groups showed that HCWs'' awareness in influencing factors of HAI, hand hygiene opportunity, isolation measures, and medical waste classification 3 months after training was significantly lower than immediately after training(all P<0.001);the average scores of HAI prevention and control knowledge among HCWs immediately after and 3 months after training were both higher than before training(P<0.001);average score of HAI prevention and control knowledge among HCWs 3 months after training was lower than that of immediately after training(P<0.001).Conclusion The training at morning shift meeting of clinical departments can improve the awareness of HAI prevention and control knowledge among HCWs.