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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice on Waste Management and Their Related Factors in Nurses Working in an Emergency Department of a Military Hospital
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Mohsen Saffari *   , Hosein Masoumbeigi , Hormoz Sanaeinasab , Seyed-Mohammad Beheshti |
| Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences |
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Background: Optimized healthcare waste management may reduce the costs related to production of such waste and also minimize the health related risks of such materials for healthy people as well as patients; and nursing staff may contribute to this significantly. The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude, practice and related factors in a sample of emergency department’s nurses.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 52 nurses working in emergency department of a military hospital were assessed through a researcher made questionnaire. The associations between several demographic factors including gender, age, education, work experience and monthly working hours and the knowledge, attitude, and practice were assessed. Student t test was utilized to examine the associations.
Results: Mean score of the waste management knowledge was 8.35±3.28 and nearly 49% of the achievable score was yielded. The mean score of the attitude and practice were 75% and 61% of the overall achievable scores respectively. The work experience was associated with the knowledge and practice of the participants while the monthly working hours was only associated with the participant’s practice regarding healthcare waste management (p<0.05).
Conclusion: There were significant gaps in the status of knowledge, attitude and practice of the nurses compared to optimum level; and therefore, educational interventions should be considered for this group of healthcare workers. For this, subsamples such as nurses with greater work experience and those who have higher monthly working hours may need special attention.
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Article number: 4 |
| Keywords: healthcare waste, nurse, knowledge, attitude, practice |
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Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2022/10/2 | Accepted: 2023/02/7 | Published: 2023/06/4
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