Awareness of hand hygiene among health care workers in intensive care units Khartoum state tertiary hospitals

ABSTRACT

Noscomial infections result in significant morbidity and mortality and represent a heavy economic burden for many hospitals and countries. Sub-optimal complicance with hand hygiene guidelines is one of the major risks for nosocomial infections. The aim of this work is to determine the level of awareness of intensive care unit [ICU[healthcare workers towards hand hygiene. Descriptive cross-sectional hospital-based survey methods are used. Awareness to hand hygiene among healthcare workers of the ICUs of Khartoum North Teaching Hospital, Omdurman Teaching Hospital and Khartoum Teaching Hospital was 65.88%, 63.4% and 59.7% respectively. Compliance with hand hygiene materials and badly located sinks are contributory factors to poor compliance. In the most cases, healthcare workers do not comply with hand hygiene. As shown by our results, increasing awareness about hand hygiene and providing accesses to resources for hand hygiene can improve compliance