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Background : Healthcare workers worked untiringly during entire pandemic period and taken efforts to protect individuals, families and communities in adverse situations with stretched resources. Among health care workers role of ward attendant and housekeeping staffs have been very significant particularly in infection control practices and dead body management. Present study aim is to gain an understanding of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of ward attendant and housekeeping staffs towards dead body management. Methods: Hospital-based cross-sectional study design was conducted among ward attendant and housekeeping staffs working in COVID units. A total of 62 participants were selected using simple random sampling technique. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Binary logistic regression model was used to see association between outcome and independent variables. Result: Present study found mean knowledge, attitude and practice score of participants were 6.1, 49.9 and 12.28 indicates good knowledge, positive attitude and inappropriate practice towards dead body care. Study result also shows that odds of good knowledge were not significantly associated with demographic variables. However, the participants who did not receive any training on dead body care were found to have positive attitude towards dead body care(AOR=3.90,95%CI=1.092-13.92), whereas gender (AOR=1.85,95%CI=.430-7.96), working experience in COVID units (AOR=99.5,95%CI=.913-98.8) and educational qualification (AOR=30.33,95%CI=1.5-577) were significantly associated with practice of dead body care of COVID-19 patients. Conclusion: The study found that majority of participants were having good knowledge, positive attitude and inappropriate practice towards dead body care of COVID-19 patients. Hospital administration should conduct regular training of dead body care of COVID-19 patients for all the housekeeping staffs and ward attendant to minimise the risk of exposure to infections and better management of dead bodies.
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Abstract Title: Knowledge practice gap of nurses towards COVID-19 patients dead body care in a tertiary care hospital. Authors: Girraj Saini, Mahendra Singh, Prasan Kumar Panda, Manish Kumar Sharma, Pankaj Punjot, Raviprakash Meshram, Puneet Kumar Gupta. Aim: To know the dead body care of COVID 19 patients. Objective: 1.To determine health care professionals, knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 dead body care. 2. To find the association of knowledge, attitude, practice with selected demographic variables. Background: COVID -19 was a global pandemic and it was a serious note for health care professionals from many aspects. The virus was infective and causes serious infections to patients which were easily transmitted, hence specific dead body care is required for such kinds of patients. To keep this background in mind the study was conducted to identify the knowledge, practice and attitude towards COVID-19 dead body care among nurses. Methodology: A cross sectional survey based study was done on 282 samples.Quantitative research design with purposive sampling technique data was collected for knowledge,attitude, and practice. Result: Knowledge, attitude and practice were assessed and association was done with demographic profile. Hence the good knowledge, attitude and practice were observed in experienced and trained nurses (p value<0.005. Whereas no significant changes were observed with age, gender and education qualification. Conclusion: Overall knowledge, attitude and practice regarding COVID -19 dead body care were moderate to good. But it was important to identify the gap as it was a global pandemic and higher chances of spreading of infection. Keywords: Contact transmission, Corona virus disease 2019, Dead body, Healthcare workers, and Questionnaire study.